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 ...

Early Earth's first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 / 250402122139.htm.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

But unlike modern oceanic crust, which typically lingers for less than 200 million years before getting recycled into Earth’s interior by plate tectonics, the precursor crust survived for more ...

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.

A close-up of 2.7 billion-year-old granite from the Hudson Bay. These rocks are apparently the second generation of rocks on Earth: Their parent rock was around 4.3 billion years old.

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.

Parts of Earth's Original Crust Exist Today in Canada. News. By Stephanie Pappas published 17 March 2017 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.