The zircon crystals we found in river sand and rocks from Finland have signatures that point towards them being much older than anything ever found in Scandinavia, while matching the age of ...

“The zircon crystals we found in river sand and rocks ... researcher at the university’s Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, said in a statement. At the same time ...

A 4.4 billion-year-old zircon crystal is providing new insight into how the early Earth cooled from a ball of magma and formed continents just 160 million years after the formation of our solar ...

Zircon crystals can survive geological processes such as erosion and metamorphism, making them invaluable for geological studies and radiometric dating. Credit: Robert Simmon, based on data from ...

They contain zircon crystals that were formed billions of ... in further research and provide new insights about our planet's natural satellite and its history. Read also: Did the Egyptians ...