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Earth may have always held the key ingredients for life
Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...
The oldest rocks on Earth are more than 4 billion years old
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...
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Geologists suggest early continents formed through mantle plumes, not plate collisions - Phys.org
Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents formed during the Archean time, more than 2.5 billion years ago. Their ...
Oldest Rock On Earth Confirmed To Be Over 4 Billion Years Old
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...
A Fragment of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
Oldest rocks on Earth found in Canada, are more than four billion years old
We are part of a research team that has confirmed the oldest known rocks on Earth are located in northern Québec.__ ...
Scientists say they have identified Earth’s oldest rocks. It could reveal an unknown chapter in our planet’s history
Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?
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A meteorite 100 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing space rock may have nourished early microbial life - MSN
Today, phosphorus erodes out of continental rocks into the oceans, but during the Archean, Earth was mostly a water world, ...
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Earth's mantle chemistry has remained stable for billions of years, according to scientists
They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...