Green Options » terrestrial rocks http://greenoptions.com/tag/terrestrial-rocks Posts tagged 'terrestrial rocks' Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:43:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en 4.28 Billion Year Old Rock Vestige - Remnant of Earth’s Crust - Discovered in Canada http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/28/428-billion-year-old-rock-vestige-remnant-of-earths-crust-discovered-in-canada/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/28/428-billion-year-old-rock-vestige-remnant-of-earths-crust-discovered-in-canada/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:43:26 +0000 Sam Aola Ooko http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/28/428-billion-year-old-rock-vestige-remnant-of-earths-crust-discovered-in-canada/ 4.28 Billion Year Old Rocks - Oldest Remnants of Earth’s Crust - Discovered in Canada Researchers in Canada have found 4.28 billion year old rocks, probably the world’s oldest, and which may be remnants of a portion of the first crust that formed at the surface of our planet, known as the primordial crust.

The ancient rocks were found in Northern Quebec, along the Hudson’s Bay coast, 40 km south of Inukjuak in an area known as the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt.

Read more of this story »

]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/28/428-billion-year-old-rock-vestige-remnant-of-earths-crust-discovered-in-canada/feed/