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On Feb. 24, 2014, scientists announced that a tiny zircon crystal from Australia, 4.4 billion years old, was confirmed to be ...

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Scientists have uncovered new information about the Earth's core: it may not be completely solid. Instead, its center may be ...

Earth was a very different place during its Cryogenian period, around 700 million years ago. It was covered head-to-toe in ...

Explore the fascinating evolution of Mars atmosphere. Discover how it transformed, becoming trapped in its crust's clay ...

Massive glaciers from Earth’s past reshaped the planet in ways that paved the way for complex life. As they moved, they ...

In some way which, as yet, we understand but vaguely, both igneous and denudational differentiation then combined in developing the earth's crust. We now find in the latter all those rocks which ...

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In 2014, scientists announced that a tiny zircon crystal from Australia, 4.4 billion years old, was confirmed to be the oldest discovered fragment of Earth's crust. In 2020, a New York City jury ...

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