The Hadean Eon, Earth's first geological period, remains shrouded in mystery due to scarce rock records. However, Québec's ...

The Hadean eon rocks are believed to have formed during the first 500 million years in the life of the Earth after its ...

We are part of a research team that has confirmed the oldest known rocks on Earth are located in northern Québec.__ ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...