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 ...

Now, scientists working in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa—where some of the oldest rocks on Earth are preserved—find evidence of terrestrial microbial life that they estimate is about 3 ...

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 ...

Scientists have recreated the hellish conditions in the heart of our planet in a laboratory – and now believe Earth’s solid ...

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 ...

There is no evidence the post's depiction of ancient Earth is accurate ... like before the last ice age, had sea levels high enough to flood most of today's coastal cities." ...

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 ...

The analysis of 63 human bone fragments uncovered in Poland's Maszycka Cave just revealed a grisly truth about the ...

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 ...