As one of The Nature Conservancy’s four preserves in the state, Blowing Rocks is the smallest, the busiest and the oldest.

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

This would indicate that water-rock interactions were going on over ... As the researchers note, a nearby ocean would have improved the chances of exposing this region to water, but the exposure ...