Traces of Earth's original crust found in Canadian Shield

Science | 207412 hits | Mar 19 5:01 pm | Posted by: Hyack

The oldest crust that exists today is about 2.7 billion years old, and remnants have long been known to be in the Canadian Shield. Researchers have found traces of Earth's crust in the Canadian Shield dating back 4.2 billion years, when our planet was in

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by DrCaleb
Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:55 pm
I remember seeing a documentary where they had climbed to the top of some mountain in the Torngat range in Northern Labrador, and had found sandstone in the form of waves on the beach.

You know, the little sine wave pattern that waves crashign on the beach make? So, some mountian rose, rain wore it down to sand, then the beach it formed fossilized, turned to stone and rose again to become a mountain.

And people run around like they are late for something.

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