The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

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A rock core was extracted by a team of researchers from a depth of 15 meters belowground, ensuring that the sample had ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

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

These strange spires formed from volcanic ash, were capped with harder rock, and shaped by erosion.

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new study claims.

The zebra-like striped patterns that spontaneously appear in rocks are characterized by periodic self-organized red-brown bands consisting of iron oxide minerals. Although the formation of periodic ...