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New study challenges discovery of Earth’s ‘oldest’ impact crater - The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was ...
Early Earth's first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 / 250402122139.htm.
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IFLScience on MSNAncient Meteor Crater Thought To Be World's Oldest May Be 800 Million Years Younger Than We RealizedThe crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...
The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...
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.
Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...
New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...
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.
Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after more than a decade of hard work, they believe they've really proven it and are ...
Sunrise over Ahu Tongariki Moai in Easter Island, Chile. The discovery of crystal "time capsules" on the island has challenged the idea that the Earth’s crust and mantle might move together like ...
This discovery could bolster the idea that Mars' early crust was way more complex than once thought — and perhaps similar to Earth's original crust.
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.
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