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The world’s oldest crust in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, Quebec
https://earthlogs.org/2025/06/28/the-worlds-oldest-crust-in-the-nuvvuagittuq-greenstone-belt-quebec/
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canadian geology
ancient metamorphosed basalt
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basaltic magma
Since 1999, the rocks generally acknowledged to be the oldest on Earth were part of the Acasta gneisses in the Slave Craton in Canada’s Northwest Territories; specifically the Idiwhaa tonalitic gneisses. Zircons extracted from that… More
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