At 2.5 billion years old and weighing in at 2.5 tonnes, the banded iron formation is so heavy that Museum engineers had to reinforce the floor underneath it in Hintze Hall. 'The rock tells a ...

In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock ...

Luckily, the Earth’s oldest rocks have a unique characteristic that sets them apart from the rest of the Canadian landscape: they are all magnetic. “Our time out in the field was basically a ...

Computer models suggest that heavy elements rode shock waves from supernovas to our planet, according to evidence from rocks found on the ocean floor.

Surface rocks are constantly re-melted and re-mixed into the Earth’s interior, and there just aren’t many places where the surface rocks are, on these time scales, that old.

New geochemical evidence obtained from Earth’s oldest-known rocks—found in remote lake regions of northern Canada—provides clues about Earth’s early tectonics, according to a study by ...

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

Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes features previously unheard tracks, demos and alternative takes from the band's early days, ...

The rock’s high iron content and unique characteristics classified it as an H5 ordinary chondrite. “ If you saw a rock on ...