Parts of the ocean reached temperatures of -15°C (5°F) without freezing 717-660 million years ago, geologists and geochemists ...

MADISON — The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth ...

The multi-coloured layers of banded iron formations could connect ancient changes on earth’s surface—like the emergence of photosynthetic life—to planetary processes like volcanism and plate tectonics ...

Banded iron formations could not have formed by post-depositional oxidation, according to four million hydrogeological box model iterations that failed to reproduce secondary oxidation on reasonable ...

This photo shows an example of the 3.7 billion year-old banded iron formation found in the northeastern part of the Isua Supracrustal Belt. Geologists at MIT and Oxford University have uncovered ...

The world's primary economic source of iron ore, iron formations, are ancient sedimentary rocks that appear as solid as rocks can be. How did they get to be like that? According to researchers, it has ...

The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth more than ...