The map locates the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Canada, home to some of the oldest rocks on Earth. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a collapsing cloud of dust and gas, soon after ...

On a remote rocky outcropping in northern Canada, scientists have found further confirmation that the area hosts some of the world’s oldest rocks (Science 2025, DOI: 10.1126/science.ads8461).

The intrusive rocks that crossed these volcanic formations were dated to 4.16 billion years, indicating the volcanic rocks to be older, as reported by the University of Ottawa.

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new study claims. The analysis dated the site's streaky gray rocks, part of an ...

"The volcanic rocks have to be at least 4.16 billion years old or older; I would argue that the best age for them is 4.3 billion years old," study co-author Jonathan O'Neil, a professor of ...

Nation World These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth Samples from a new site place the rocks at approximately 4.16 billion years old, in the earliest period of Earth's history.