The answer lies in some of the earliest extensive relics of Earth's surface, found in a remote corner of southern Africa's highveld—a region known to geologists as the Barberton Greenstone Belt.

Writing for The Conversation, the scientists explained that their work began after de Ronde created a new, detailed geological map of an area known as the Barberton Greenstone Belt, which lies in ...

Spherules in the Barberton greenstone belt in the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa. Credit: Lowe et al., 2014: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/42/9 ...

The clues to this ancient event are hidden in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa. This region, one of the oldest geological formations on Earth, contains layers of rock that preserve ...

Ancient rocks in southern Africa's Barberton Greenstone Belt contain evidence for some of the earliest known earthquakes, which occurred around 3.3 billion years ago. The rocks provide evidence of ...

Abstract: The oldest well-preserved komatiites, and the type examples, are found in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa (3·5–3·3 Ga). All three komatiite types are present, commonly within ...

Sudan and Saudi Arabia), Isua greenstone belt (Greenland), and Barberton greenstone belt (South Africa); tectonic evolution of the Chilean Patagonia and the Southern Andes; Archean Earth and evolution ...