World's Oldest Rock - Northwest Territories

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Campbell, Sandy

• This rock is a chip from the oldest rock in the world, a crustal outcrop at Acasta River, Northwest Territories. It is 3.962 billion years old and is comprised of zircons, quartz, plagioclass fedlspars, biotite, hornblende, allanite, sphene, garnet, magnetite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and other trace minerals.

• Date created

  2015-08-11

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Photographs
  • Tonalite Gneiss - Northwest Territories
  • Rocks - Northwest Territories
  • 3.962 billion years ago
  • Canada, Northwest Territories, Acasta River

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3655B

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International