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By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's ...
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Canadian researchers led by McGill PhD student Jonathan O'Neil said they'd found the world's oldest rocks, formed 4.3 billion ...
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Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?
A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...
Groundwater is declining across Eastern Washington's complex, interconnected aquifer system, as people draw on it for ...
Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.
The newly studied rocks, which formed later than the original rocks analyzed, are at least 4.16 billion years old, reports a paper published today in Science.
AS the rocks which form the continental masses are disintegrated by the action of weathering and other geological agents, their detritus accumulates to form sedimentary rocks, ultimately on the ...
In 2008, Canadian researchers led by McGill PhD student Jonathan O'Neil said they'd found the world's oldest rocks, formed 4.3 billion years ago in what is now northwestern Quebec. Such rocks ...