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New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

In the many millennia since, it seems continental crust has retained that original chemical signature, less affected by the heavy bombardment of meteorites that changed the composition of Earth's ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

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

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

EARTH is just shy of 4.6 billion years old and roughly a couple hundred million years later the planetary blob began to cool enough for it to form its first crust.

Ground-Breaking Discovery: Remnants Of Earths Primordial Crust Found The ancient crust of Australia is crucial for understanding the early Earth, because it tells us about how the continental ...

A new study finds the original crust on Mars is more complex, ... and especially what it means for how Earth's crust first formed." ... Payré says she was mildly surprised at the discovery.

Technically speaking, though, the team did not drill into the Earth’s mantle, nor was its hole nearly as deep as SG-3 or the target depth for the prospective hole in China. Instead the team targeted a ...

A study published in Nature on 2 April reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, probably had chemical features remarkably like today’s continental crust.