Scientists detected living microorganisms within a sealed fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock from South Africa, making them ...

Hidden beneath our feet, kilometers underground, life has been existing for billions of years. A recent discovery may reshape ...

Scientists found living microbes in a 2-billion-year-old rock in South Africa, providing insights into early life on Earth ...

IN the middle of the last century much interest was shown in the problem of the genesis of igneous rocks, and especially in the manner of origin of diverse rock-types from a common stock or from a ...

Using high-precision dating of geologic regions, scientists have found evidence that one of the most significant warming ...

It shows a curious fracture surface due to a heavy gelignite detonation in finely crystalline “trap” rock. So far as I can remember I had seen other examples of this phenomenon, but ...

is supplied from igneous rock from Russia, South Africa, Brazil, and Finland. These igneous phosphate deposits are mostly from the Khibiny Alkalic Igneous Complex (Notholt, 1979) and the Kovdor ...

Discover the 2-billion-year-old microbes found trapped in a South African rock, revealing insights into early Earth and the ...

The BIC made of layers of igneous rock in a basin shape, formed over a period of about 1 million years, after which it seems to have barely changed. Pockets of microbes have been found living ...

Microbes have been found alive and well inside ancient rock, offering an extraordinary glimpse into Earth's distant past.

Researchers from the University of Tokyo and elsewhere have found pockets of living microbes in mineral-filled veins within 2-billion-year-old rock from the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa. “We ...

Microbes have been able to find a home in some truly incredible places, even inside of ancient rocks.... | Microbiology ...