Fundamentals of Structural Geology provides a new framework for the investigation of geological structures by integrating field mapping and mechanical analysis. Assuming a basic knowledge of physical ...

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A 4.4 billion-year-old chunk of Earth is thought to be the oldest physical geological proof of how long our planet has been ...

In a 2014 study, scientists dated the discovery to 4.39 billion years old, give or take a few million years. In other words, they’d confirmed the oldest known geological material. Even before this ...