Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...

In 2008, researchers reported that these rocks dated back 4.3 billion years 2, a claim that other scientists contested. Work reported today in Science 1 seems to confirm that the rocks, known as the ...

Scientists have identified what may be Earth's oldest rocks following new research into the formations. The discovery centres on the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, situated along Hudson Bay's eastern ...

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, ...

At the time, the Earth's surface was hot enough to bake pizza, but rocks still solidified. Those in this area formed almost ...

Dating rocks involves using radiometric techniques that harness the natural and ... It’s not yet clear whether Nuvvuagittuq outcrops will become widely accepted as Earth’s oldest rocks, ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada ... But other scientists using a different dating method contested the finding, arguing that long-ago ...

How to date rock. Dating rocks ... It’s not yet clear whether Nuvvuagittuq outcrops will become widely accepted as Earth’s oldest rocks, according to other scientists who were not involved ...