US EditionAncient Rock Formation in Canada May Be Oldest on Earth
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New study confirms the location of the oldest rocks on Earth
The site of the oldest rocks on Earth, 30km from Inukjuak, in Nunavik, Canada. Credit: University of Ottawa The northeastern Canadian province of Quebec is home to the oldest known rocks on Earth and likely the last remnants of our planet’s early crust. A new study has dated the rocks to at least 4.16 billion years ago (bya) during Earth’s first geologic eon – the Hadean. The Earth is about 4.54 billion years old, placing them within the first 5…
A remote outcropping in Canada houses rocks that are at least 4,160 million years old, according to researchers in Science magazine. If true, these rocks would be the oldest known on Earth and the first to date from the oldest and most mysterious eon on the planet. The finding is the last save in [...]
A new mineral dating analysis on the Greenstone Belt in northern Canada suggests that parts of the formation could be 4,160 million years old, being almost as old as our planet, whose age is estimated to be around 4,543 million years old. The results indicate that the belt represents one of the best places to understand the Earth’s past, as it would group together the oldest rocks that have been found so far.
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