geologists have heretofore hesitated to correlate directly the radioactive evidence of the age of rocks with the records of stratigraphy. THE time scale the history of the earth. Before reviewing ...

the ever-changing Earth rarely left a complete geological record. The age of the planet, though, was important to Charles Darwin and other evolutionary theorists: The biological evidence they were ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Without its magnetic field, life on Earth would not be possible since this ...

Both of these pieces of evidence are hard to explain without a giant impact ... Today, all of the hafnium is gone because it has a short half-life compared to the age of the Earth. However, not all is ...

This makes it difficult for researchers to find out what happened during Earth's early history, as most of the evidence was destroyed eons ago. However, scientists have discovered ancient rocks ...

Researchers have unveiled new findings that reshape our understanding of the Moon's formation and Earth's early hydration.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen ... Lithium isotope evidence for a plumeworld ocean in the aftermath ...

A recent Virginia Tech-led study provides the first direct geochemical evidence of the 'plumeworld ... after the last global ice age, leading to a rapid change in Earth's climate toward a warmer ...

And for astronauts on the International Space Station, that means they get to age just a tiny bit slower than people on Earth ... but there's evidence that it's real. When scientists launched ...

Archeologists have discovered evidence of a previously unknown prehistoric civilization spanning 3,000 square miles across Central Europe. And Google Earth helped them do it. "When we recognized ...