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Today in Science, researchers announced they'd found bits of Earth's original crust still in place, in northern Quebec, Canada. The team believes the rocks are more than 4.2 billion years old — that's ...
Early Earth's first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 / 250402122139.htm.
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.
Excavating the mysteries beneath Earth’s crust is a challenging endeavor. However, a groundbreaking Earth’s crust discovery project drilled over a mile deep into the crust near the Atlantis ...
Trace of Earth’s original 4.3 billion-year-old crust found on surface. SCIENTISTS have discovered a piece of Earth’s first crust, dating back some 4.3 billion years. less than 2 min read.
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.
Our planet was born around 4.5 billion years ago. To understand this mind-bendingly long history, we need to study rocks and the minerals they are made of.
Remnants of Earth’s original crust preserve time before plate tectonics. ... D.C., discovered 2.7-billion-year-old continental rocks that hinted at something much older.
Researchers have found traces of Earth's crust in the Canadian Shield dating back 4.2 billion years, when our planet was in its infancy.
Researchers have discovered a hidden part of Earth's crust in a Finnish outcrop in Northern Europe. (Image credit: Andreas Petersson) Previous research uncovered evidence for early Archean crust ...
A tiny piece of crystal has been found to be the oldest piece of the Earth's crust ever discovered. The 4.4 billion-year-old gem is twice the width of a human hair and barely visible to the eye.