Kolkata: Zircon a little more than 4 billion years old has previously been found in Kerala’s Wayanad (in 2016) and from the river Baitarani in Odisha (in 2018). The Earth’s oldest zircon discovery, ...

Impact cratering was a dominant geologic process in the early Solar System that probably played an active role in the crustal evolution of the young terrestrial planets. The Earth’s interior during ...

Two test methods put the rocks at 4.16 billion years old The volcanic rocks date to primordial Earth's Hadean eon Rocks are surviving fragments of Earth's oldest crust June 26 (Reuters) - Along the ...

The first half a billion years or so of Earth's existence was not so hellish after all, according to research on desert rocks in outback Australia. Geologists Professor Bruce Watson of Rensselaer ...

To geologists, Earth’s early history is somewhat of a black box. Volcanoes, magma seas and meteorite impacts defined our planet’s surface from its formation, 4.6 billion years ago, until the earliest ...

The first half a billion years or so of Earth's existence was not so hellish after all, according to research on desert rocks in outback Australia. Geologists Professor Bruce Watson of Rensselaer ...