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

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

When Jonathan O'Neil discovered rocks in northern Quebec he estimated to be 4.3 billion years old, there was some controversy ...

On the shores of Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada lie what could be the world’s oldest rocks. A study now suggests they are at least 4.16 billion years old — 160 million years older than any others ...

In 2008, researchers reported that these rocks dated back 4.3 billion years 2, a claim that other scientists contested. Work ...

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.

Samples from a new site place the rocks at approximately 4.16 billion years old, in the earliest period of Earth's history.

The gold standard for determining the age of ancient rocks is measuring the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium into lead in minerals known as zircons. But not all rocks contain zircons, so ...

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Nunavik, in northern Quebec, may contain the oldest rocks in the world, according to an Ontario researcher. These rocks ...