A recent study reveals that India hosts remarkably well-preserved volcanic and sedimentary rocks as old as 3.5 billion years, and has similar geologic history to parts of South Africa and Australia, the news agency PTI reported.

According to PTI,  researchers from the Wits University, University of Johannesburg (UJ), both in South Africa, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, examined volcanic and sedimentary rocks from the Daitari greenstone belt in the Singhbhum Craton in east India that were formed approximately 3.5 billion years ago.