Asteroid Impact Likely Created the Oldest Felsic Rocks on Earth

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Meteorite Bombardment Likely Created the Oldest 

Rocks on Earth By Meghan Bartels, Space.com 

Senior Writer | August 13, 2018 04:54pm ET

https://www.space.com/41468-meteorite-bombardment-created-oldest-earth-rocks.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/gc-mbl081018.php

 

Johnson, T.E., Gardiner, N.J., Miljković, K., Spencer, 

C.J., Kirkland, C.L., Bland, P.A. and Smithies, H., 2018. 

An impact melt origin for Earth’s oldest known

evolved rocks. Nature Geoscience.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0206-5

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0206-5

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.