First up on our list of oldest fossils ever found are the microfossils of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt. The rock sequence ...

The Barberton Greenstone Belt holds signs of at least eight major meteorite strikes, and Drabon plans to keep digging—literally and figuratively—to learn more about how these early hits shaped the ...

Scientists have found remnants of the catastrophe in some of the oldest rocks on Earth—in Western Australia's Pilbara Block and in South Africa's Barberton Greenstone Belt.

Evidence of impact found at Barberton Greenstone Belt. The Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains are home to a geologic formation known as the Barberton Greenstone Belt where eight impact events ...

The Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains are home to a geologic formation known as the Barberton Greenstone Belt where eight impact events, including the S2 meteoritic impact, have occurred.

Spherical pieces of rock formed following a meteorite impact — are seen in rock from a region called the Barberton Greenstone Belt in northeastern South Africa in this undated photograph.

“In the Barberton Greenstone Belt we have evidence for seven more impact events, all of them either the same size or bigger than the one that killed the dinosaurs.

The research team traveled for three field seasons to Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa to collect the samples needed for the study, accompanied with years of laboratory work, Drabon said.

The landscape pictured during geological fieldwork in a region called the Barberton Greenstone Belt in northeastern South Africa, in this undated handout photograph obtained by Reuters.

Item 1 of 4 A bed of rock showing chunks of ripped up seafloor as debris from a tsunami that followed a huge meteorite impact on Earth dating back to about 3.26 billion years ago, seen in a region ...