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Beneath the Afar region's vast landscape in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered a powerful geological force that is ...
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...
In a groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers from the University of Manchester have ...
Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...
Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...
A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...
Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.
The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...
Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...
New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...