Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

A study of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt found that its rocks go back to the Hadean Eon, making them the ideal candidate ...

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

Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...

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

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

Not quite a gateway to hell, but northern Canada has a gateway to the Hadean Eon, named after the Greek God of Hell.

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

U-Pb geochronology for the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt put a minimum age constraint of similar to 3.8 Ga for the supracrustal lithologies. Recent Nd-142 work raised the possibility that the dominant ...

Far in northern Quebec lies the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, a region made up of ancient volcanic and sedimentary rocks. Scientists are still debating its exact age– some say it’s about 3.8 ...