Earth’s Lost Timeline: Rusty Rocks Reveal Billion-Year-Old Secrets
In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...
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How Old Is the Earth?
Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...
Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
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3.5 billion-year-old crater created by meteorite impact found in Australia, scientists say
The meteorite likely struck Earth at more than 22,370 miles per ... estimated to be about 3.48 billion years old, according to the paper. The second-oldest impact crater, estimated to have been ...
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Earth's oldest-known crater discovered in outback WA is 3.47 billion years old, study finds
The Earth formed an estimated 4.5 billion years ... A study from two years ago suggested there was a 3-billion-year-old impact crater, but the evidence was deemed by many to be inconclusive.
New research sheds light on earliest days of Earth's formation
New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...
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What a 3.5 billion-year-old meteor crater tells us about the Earth
being the only significant marker of Earth’s tumultuous past. Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South Africa ...
Earth’s oldest impact crater was just found in Australia – exactly where geologists hoped it would be
We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.