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 ...

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 ...

What we know today as Sabino Canyon was the site of a whole lot of scrunching 25 million years ago. The resulting gneiss appears today as the comely striped rocks ...

Scientists think they have found the oldest rocks on earth - Research suggest the rocks could be as old as 4.3 billion years ...

Scientists have uncovered 4 billion-year-old rocks from another formation in Canada called the Acasta Gneiss Complex, but the Nuvvuagittuq rocks could be even older. Studying rocks from Earth's ...

Although the Acasta Gneiss is known to contain the oldest rocks on Earth, finding the 4-billion-year-old samples is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Beautiful metamorphic gneiss, 400 million years old, and it came from Northern Europe. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Full day of hiking today, Yellow Aster Butte Hiking Trail and Mount Baker volcano.

Rocks dating back to the Earth’s Hadean Eon have finally had their antiquity confirmed as stretching back at least 4.16 billion years.

Scientists have uncovered 4 billion-year-old rocks from another formation in Canada called the Acasta Gneiss Complex, but the Nuvvuagittuq rocks could be even older.

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada.

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Quebec has long been known for its ancient rocks, but ...