At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

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About 700 million years ago, massive glaciers crept across the Earth’s surface toward an ice-covered sea, scraping the ground ...

A new study suggests glaciers carved metals out from the Earth’s surface 700 million years ago, leading to chemical reactions ...

The team looked at zircons — crystallized minerals that are exceptionally durable and can weather extreme geological events. Zircons also contain uranium; by measuring the stages of uranium’s ...

Kirkland and his colleagues found answers in Scotland and Northern Ireland, where they studied sediments from rock formations dating to the Neoproterozoic. The team looked at zircons — crystallized ...

The zircons contain radioactive elements that have allowed scientists to pinpoint their exact age. They also suggest that Earth’s surface cooled far earlier than previously thought - possibly ...

The results show that the detrital zircons are aged from 290 to 208 Ma, 520–310 Ma, 810–580 Ma, 1,400–880 Ma and 2,548–1,730 Ma, reflecting the complexity of provenance in this area. Based on a ...