These rocks offer evidence that Earth had a strong magnetic field 3.7 billion years ago, but scientists aren't sure where that field could've come from. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. It has been suggested that disproportionation of Fe-carbonate during metamorphism accounts for the genesis of the graphite in ...

Metasedimentary units, including detrital conglomerates, turbidites, chemically precipitated banded iron formations (BIFs) and metacherts, as well as pillow structures of mafic rocks, indicate the ...

At first glance the rocks that make up Greenland's Isua supracrustal belt look just like any modern basalt you'd find on the sea floor. But this outcrop, which was first described in the 1960s, is the ...

The mud volcanoes at Isua, in south-west Greenland, have been identified as a possible birthplace for life on Earth by an international team headed by researchers. Almost four billion years ago, these ...