Acasta Gneiss Crystals – Oldest Known Rock on Earth – Genuine

Description

All of our Minerals are 100% Genuine Specimens & come with a Certificate of Authentication
Type: Acasta Gneiss (Oldest known rock on earth)
Age: 3.6 – 4 billion years old
Location: Northwest Territories, Canada
Size (picture scale cube=1cm)
The Acasta Gneiss is a tonalite gneiss in the Slave craton in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The rock body is exposed on an island about 300 kilometres north of Yellowknife. The rock of the outcrop was metamorphosed 3.58 to 4.031 billion years ago and is the oldest known intact crustal fragment on Earth.

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