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A new atlas charts the global distribution of unusual, critical-metal-bearing igneous rocks, finding that they often form ...

Scientists discovered how Earth recycles continents deep underground, shaping the unusual rocks found in ancient mountain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northeastern Canada is home to the oldest rocks on Earth (Jonathan O'Neil) Earth formed about ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains of streaked gray ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something extraordinary: powering magnetic fields strong enough to shield entire planets from ...

The Earth with the upper mantle revealed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock in a key region just below the tectonic ...

In 2016, the geochemists Jonas Tusch and Carsten Münker hammered a thousand pounds of rock from the Australian Outback and airfreighted it home to Cologne, Germany. Five years of sawing, crushing, ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name “Hadean” comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...