The rocks contain structures which might indicate life was present
Posted on 10/01/2008 3:41:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Earth's most ancient rocks, with an age of 4.28 billion years, have been found on the shore of Hudson Bay, Canada. Writing in Science journal, a team reports finding that a sample of Nuvvuagittuq greenstone is 250 million years older than any rocks known. It may even hold evidence of activity by ancient life forms. If so, it would be the earliest evidence of life on Earth - but co-author Don Francis cautioned that this had not been established... "Now we have pushed the Earth's crust back by hundreds of millions of years. That's why everyone is so excited." ... the majority of our planet's early crust has already been mashed and recycled into Earth's interior several times over... Before this study, the oldest whole rocks were from a 4.03 billion-year-old body known as the Acasta Gneiss, in Canada's Northwest Territories. The only things known to be older are mineral grains called zircons from Western Australia, which date back 4.36 billion years... The material displays a banded iron formation - fine ribbon-like bands of alternating magnetite and quartz. This feature is typical of rock precipitated in deep sea hydrothermal vents - which have been touted as potential habitats for early life on Earth.
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Can’t be. Earth is just 6,000 years old. Or was that 10,000? I never can remember. /s
The Earth was indeed made in six days... to God a day can stretch a thousand years to a billion yrs. He built the time dimension and exists outside of it.
I thought they’d be found in the head of Murtha.
I believe that is the age that was obtained from the Bible and that’s good enough for me.
Those would have to be different rocks. According to the article, these contains signs of what could be interpreted as indicative of life.
True, Murtha’s was indicative of slander mostly against the military.
You are right.
It was calculated by some guy; not in the Bible.
But whichever way you look at it... isn’t all matter pretty much the same age?
YEC INTREP
You got any rocks from when you were a kid?
Bound to be older than these!
; < )
{Insert Mick Jagger/Rolling Stones joke here.}
Researchers report that this rock is 4.28 billion years old and formed when the Earth was less than 300 million years old.
In an article appearing in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, scientists report that portions of that bedrock are 4.28 billion years old, formed when the earth was less than 300 million years old.
“These rocks paint this picture of an early earth that looked pretty much like the modern earth,” said Richard W. Carlson of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and one of the authors of the paper.
Some scientists say ancient bedrock found in Canada could turn out to be younger rock formed from much older remnants.
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