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Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...
The study sheds light on the formation and growth of Archean cratons, the oldest parts of the continental crust that formed during the Precambrian's Archean era (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ...
Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...
The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...
A team of researchers challenged the belief that complex life forms first emerged on Earth 635 million years ago, saying life ...
(CN) — Like making a cake, dry materials came before water in the formation of Earth. In recent decades, paradigm shifts for planet formation theories had scientists debating on what exactly ...
Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, may still persist today as odd anomalies in the mantle.