Studies of these zircon minerals has given us clues about the Hadean environment, and the formation and evolution of Earth’s ...

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

Emproto combed through nearly 6,000 mineral names and found that while 50.7% of all minerals are named after men, ... "Gender doesn't pertain to how rocks and minerals form.

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

Emproto combed through nearly 6,000 mineral names and found that while 50.7% of all minerals are named after men, ... "Gender doesn't pertain to how rocks and minerals form.

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