New study confirms age of ancient Nuvvuagittuq formation, offering rare glimpse into early Earth — and sparking calls for ...

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

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Researchers from Canada and France suggest that the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB), a rock formation located in ...

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

Watch as Lorraine Kelly admits she was "terrified" after abseiling down the mast of a 25-metre mast on Friday (27 June), just ...

Yet some regions are far enough from tectonic plate boundaries to contain rocks that have remained unchanged for billions of ...