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We've Finally Dated The World's Oldest Impact Crater, And It's An Incredible 3 Billion Years OldA picture of the crater-like shape seen at North Pole Dome showing a dry landscape with a flat area in the bottom surrounded by rising hills.

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We've Finally Dated The World's Oldest Impact Crater, And It's An Incredible 3 Billion Years OldA picture of the crater-like shape seen at North Pole Dome showing a dry landscape with a flat area in the bottom surrounded by rising hills.
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We've Finally Dated The World's Oldest Impact Crater, And It's An Incredible 3 Billion Years Old

clock-iconJune 24, 2026
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The World’s Oldest Crystals Are 4.4 Billion Years Old And Contain Traces Of Something Even OlderA Jack Hills zircon around 200 micrometers across. Not only are these the oldest surviving crystals on the planet, they contain clues to what was there even before them.

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The World’s Oldest Crystals Are 4.4 Billion Years Old And Contain Traces Of Something Even OlderA Jack Hills zircon around 200 micrometers across. Not only are these the oldest surviving crystals on the planet, they contain clues to what was there even before them.
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The World’s Oldest Crystals Are 4.4 Billion Years Old And Contain Traces Of Something Even Older

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A Volcano That Slept For 100,000 Years Never Actually Went Extinct, Suggesting Other Quiet Volcanoes Could Be More Dangerous Than We ThoughtThe youngest eruption of the Methana volcano (brown) flowing into the sea, with limestone in the background.

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A Volcano That Slept For 100,000 Years Never Actually Went Extinct, Suggesting Other Quiet Volcanoes Could Be More Dangerous Than We ThoughtThe youngest eruption of the Methana volcano (brown) flowing into the sea, with limestone in the background.
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A Volcano That Slept For 100,000 Years Never Actually Went Extinct, Suggesting Other Quiet Volcanoes Could Be More Dangerous Than We Thought

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The Planet’s Oldest Minerals Reveal Possible Continents Before 4 Billion Years AgoThis Jack Hills rock containing quartz pebbles is from the Archean eon 3.05-2.65 billion years ago, but the zircons within it are much older.

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The Planet’s Oldest Minerals Reveal Possible Continents Before 4 Billion Years AgoThis Jack Hills rock containing quartz pebbles is from the Archean eon 3.05-2.65 billion years ago, but the zircons within it are much older.
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The Planet’s Oldest Minerals Reveal Possible Continents Before 4 Billion Years Ago

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Earth’s Passage Through The Galaxy Might Be Written In Its RocksFrom the outside the Milky Way probably looks a lot like M81 seen here, but we may need to look down to map it properly

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Earth’s Passage Through The Galaxy Might Be Written In Its RocksFrom the outside the Milky Way probably looks a lot like M81 seen here, but we may need to look down to map it properly
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Earth’s Passage Through The Galaxy Might Be Written In Its Rocks

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How Do You Age A Gas Giant? Jupiter's Age Revealed By "Molten Rock Raindrops"Round chondrules seen in the Allende meteorite.

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How Do You Age A Gas Giant? Jupiter's Age Revealed By "Molten Rock Raindrops"Round chondrules seen in the Allende meteorite.
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How Do You Age A Gas Giant? Jupiter's Age Revealed By "Molten Rock Raindrops"

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US Has Found Its Oldest Rock At 3.6 Billion Years Old, But Canadians Won’t Be ImpressedMetal Reference Mark #2 in Morton Gneiss Granite Rock - Morton County 1990 Minnesota Department of Transportation St. Paul, Minn

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US Has Found Its Oldest Rock At 3.6 Billion Years Old, But Canadians Won’t Be ImpressedMetal Reference Mark #2 in Morton Gneiss Granite Rock - Morton County 1990 Minnesota Department of Transportation St. Paul, Minn
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US Has Found Its Oldest Rock At 3.6 Billion Years Old, But Canadians Won’t Be Impressed

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Moon Experienced An Enormous “Magmatic Event” – Cataclysmic Impact Might Be To Blamerelief of craters on the moon has shown in different color. The basin is much deeper thatn anything aound with even deeper craters within.

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Moon Experienced An Enormous “Magmatic Event” – Cataclysmic Impact Might Be To Blamerelief of craters on the moon has shown in different color. The basin is much deeper thatn anything aound with even deeper craters within.
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Moon Experienced An Enormous “Magmatic Event” – Cataclysmic Impact Might Be To Blame

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The World’s Oldest Crystals Contain Traces Of Even Older SedimentsA Jack Hills zircon around 200 micrometers across. Not only are these the oldest surviving crystals on the planet, they contain clues to what was there even before them.

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The World’s Oldest Crystals Contain Traces Of Even Older SedimentsA Jack Hills zircon around 200 micrometers across. Not only are these the oldest surviving crystals on the planet, they contain clues to what was there even before them.
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The World’s Oldest Crystals Contain Traces Of Even Older Sediments

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Oldest Crystals In The World Reveal Earth Had Rain And Oceans 4 Billion Years AgoA zircon grain (0.250 mm by 0.070 mm, approximately the width of a human hair). These are the oldest minerals on Earth and provide crucial insight into the early Earth.

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Oldest Crystals In The World Reveal Earth Had Rain And Oceans 4 Billion Years AgoA zircon grain (0.250 mm by 0.070 mm, approximately the width of a human hair). These are the oldest minerals on Earth and provide crucial insight into the early Earth.
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Oldest Crystals In The World Reveal Earth Had Rain And Oceans 4 Billion Years Ago

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Hot Blobs In Earth’s Mantle From Moon-Forming Impact Possibly Started Plate Tectonicsthree panel image, left is a smaller rocky sphere crashing into a larger one, top right is a ring of debris around the larger sphere, and bottom right is a small sphere orbiting the larger

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Hot Blobs In Earth’s Mantle From Moon-Forming Impact Possibly Started Plate Tectonicsthree panel image, left is a smaller rocky sphere crashing into a larger one, top right is a ring of debris around the larger sphere, and bottom right is a small sphere orbiting the larger
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Hot Blobs In Earth’s Mantle From Moon-Forming Impact Possibly Started Plate Tectonics

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Plate Tectonics May Be Younger Than Life, Earth's Oldest Rocks SuggestIt might not look like much but this is a rare example of one of the oldest rocks on Earth, one that may predate plate tectonics

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Plate Tectonics May Be Younger Than Life, Earth's Oldest Rocks SuggestIt might not look like much but this is a rare example of one of the oldest rocks on Earth, one that may predate plate tectonics
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Plate Tectonics May Be Younger Than Life, Earth's Oldest Rocks Suggest

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Unusual Yellow Gem In King Tut's Tomb Created By Meteor Crash In SaharaTutankhamun's treasure, known as the Pectoral of the king, pictured at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo, Egypt.

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Unusual Yellow Gem In King Tut's Tomb Created By Meteor Crash In SaharaTutankhamun's treasure, known as the Pectoral of the king, pictured at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo, Egypt.
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Unusual Yellow Gem In King Tut's Tomb Created By Meteor Crash In Sahara

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The Right Kind Of Volcanoes Freed Us From “Snowball Earth”article image

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The Right Kind Of Volcanoes Freed Us From “Snowball Earth”article image
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The Right Kind Of Volcanoes Freed Us From “Snowball Earth”

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Geology's Clocks Might Have Been Misread, Throwing Out Our Volcano Predictionsarticle image

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Geology's Clocks Might Have Been Misread, Throwing Out Our Volcano Predictionsarticle image
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Geology's Clocks Might Have Been Misread, Throwing Out Our Volcano Predictions

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