Four Billion Years of History (IMAGE)

University of Alberta

Four Billion Years of History

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This four-billion-year-old rock sample from the Acasta Gneiss Complex in the Northwest Territories was used to determine how the Earth's earliest continental crust formed.

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Bryan Alary/University of Alberta

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