The world’s oldest crystals contain traces of even older sediments
In the world's oldest crystals, collected from Jack Hills in Western Australia, lie the remains of even older rocks – some of which have been reworked by magma into the…
In the world's oldest crystals, collected from Jack Hills in Western Australia, lie the remains of even older rocks – some of which have been reworked by magma into the…
Nearly 200 years ago, human blood was said to have been included in a ceremonial tomb built in a royal palace complex in present-day Benin, according to legend. Now, an…
Much has changed in the roughly 4.5 billion years since the Solar System first assembled from a disk-shaped cloud of swirling dust and gas.The stuff from which everything was formed…
(A) Hand sample of type 1 stromatolite showing layered structures. (B) X-ray microcomputed tomography (μCT) XZ image of a cross-section of a type 1 stromatolite, exposing denser internal laminations (red).…
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