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2.35 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Discovered in Africa Contains Secrets to The Moon's Geology
Analysis of Northwest Africa 16286 reveals it comes from underneath the Moon, where things were hot for longer than ...
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Scientists Uncover a Groundbreaking New Origin for Earth’s First Continents
New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...
Geologists Decode Earth’s 4.4-Billion-Year-Old “Missing” Crust
Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...
Geologists Accidentally Found a Ghost Plume Rising From Earth’s Mantle
Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...
The oldest rocks on Earth are more than 4 billion years old
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...
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Letter lost for 75 years leads to the accidental discovery of one of Earth's rarest minerals
A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...
Oldest living microbes discovered within a 2-billion-year-old rock
Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...
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Ancient rocks show earliest evidence of tectonic activity on Earth
The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...
Scientists Rewrite the Story of Earth’s First Continents With a Fiery New Twist
New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...
BLOBS on the move: Deep Earth structures may explain giant volcanic explosions
Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...
Denver museum discovers nearly 70-million-year-old fossil under parking lot
A museum in Denver has found a fossil that is almost 70 million years old under its parking lot while running an unrelated ...