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Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...
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 ...
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
We are part of a research team that has confirmed the oldest known rocks on Earth are located in northern Québec.__ ...
Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?
Today, phosphorus erodes out of continental rocks into the oceans, but during the Archean, Earth was mostly a water world, ...
They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...