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The ‘Boring Billion’: How Earth’s Longest Evolutionary Pause Shaped Life as We Know It
The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...
Scientific American15d
The Age of the Earth
Closely related to the history of sedimentary rocks are the age of the Earth as an astronomical body and the evolution of the planetary system. We shall see from the discussion of the following ...
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Newly discovered proof of ancient glacier reveal secrets about Earth's future
The remnants of a glacier on an island in the Canadian Arctic could be the oldest proof of their existence - and tell us ...
The Independent29d
The moon may be much older than we thought
The Earth and its moon are believed to have originated ... and it doesn’t account for the ages of some zircon minerals on its surface. A possible answer is that the moon underwent a “remelting ...
Scientific American11d
The Age of the Sun and the Earth
BEFORE the time of the Scotch geologist, James Hut- ton, some 6,000 years was believed to indicate the age of the earth, and, indeed, of the entire universe. The advent of the uniformitarian ...
Science News23d
Age of Earth
Geochemist Clair Patterson sets the age of the Earth at 4.550 billion years, relying on ages of meteorites (including the Canyon Diablo meteorite, shown) that formed around the same time.