Ancient rocks in southern Africa's Barberton Greenstone Belt contain evidence for some of the earliest known earthquakes, ...

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 ...

In a study published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers — led by Nadja Drabon, an early-Earth geologist at Harvard University — focused on an area 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 ...