First Evidence for Early Meteorite Bombardment of Earth

Schoenberg, Kamber, and Collerson, of the University of Queensland's Advanced Centre for Isotope Research Excellence (ACQUIRE), made the discovery by analyzing 3.8 billion-year-old rocks from West Greenland collected by Oxford University collaborator Stephen Moorbath and from Northern Labrador in Canada collected by Collerson.

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