Monday, October 20, 2008

A little geology in the news

New Contender for Worlds Oldest Rock! NPR story


There is a new contender for the oldest rock! Archean stuff is totally awesome, I wish I had pictures of some of the ones I saw in Montana.

According to the USGS time scale Archean starts at about 2500 Million years ago!

2 comments:

Silver Fox said...

I wish you did, too! Do you have any pictures of old-ish rocks from Alaska?

Anna said...

hmmm I have some of Denali, I am not familiar enough with the geology to know where the oldest rocks in Alaska are yet!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zwingll/sets/72157607413560154/

those are my Denali pictures!