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Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

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

Scientists have recently made an exciting discovery that could offer crucial insight into Earth’s earliest geological history ...

Scientists have identified a 4.16-billion-year-old rock formation in northern Quebec, potentially the oldest known fragment ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

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Nunavik, in northern Quebec, may contain the oldest rocks in the world, according to an Ontario researcher. These rocks ...

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