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Oldest chunk of earth's crust ever found

Geplaatst: vr 23 mar 2007, 12:02
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The oldest known chunk of Earth’s crust has been found in Greenland, and dates back at least 3.8 billion years. The substantial rock is an important find, because it is a type known as ophiolite – a signature of tectonic plate movement – and provides the best evidence yet that continental drift had been going on for at least a billion years longer than thought.


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