Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on the earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains of streaked ...

In 2024 an international team announced the discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi from at least 51,200 years ago, predating ...

Rocks dating back to the Earth’s Hadean Eon have finally had their antiquity confirmed as stretching back at least 4.16 ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq ...

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

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Scientists just confirmed the world’s oldest rocks in northern Quebec. Some may have formed from Earth’s earliest seawater.

(Reuters) -Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of ...

Located in Canada’s Northwest Territories, the Acasta Gneiss Complex is one of the oldest known rock formations on Earth. These metamorphic rocks, formed under extreme heat and pressure, are ...

The Guinness World Record for the oldest Earth rock is currently held by the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, which is listed as 4.28 billion years old, while the oldest igneous rock on Earth is Erg ...