Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath rock layers in the East Pilbara Terrane of Western Australia. The oldest ...

The oldest rocks on Earth formed more than 3 billion years ago ... Professor Chris Kirkland is leader of the Timescales of Mineral Systems at Curtin University. Jonas Kaempf is currently a ...

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse lake.

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site ... study co-lead and a professor at Curtin University’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said in a statement ...

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater ... a major breakthrough in understanding early Earth," Chris Kirkland of Curtin University in Australia, who led the discovery ...

This discovery challenges our understanding of Earth’s early history and could shed light on the origins of life.

The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.