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.

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists think they have found the oldest rocks on Earth. The ancient rocks were found in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, in Quebec in Canada, and for the last two decades scientists have been ...

New research suggests that the geological site harbors the oldest known surviving fragments of Earth’s crust, dating back to 4.16 billion years ago.

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

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, ...

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 with ...