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Saturday 26 January 2019

Earth's oldest rock was found on the moon ?? 26JAN2019

 Earth's oldest rock was found on the moon ??

Earth's oldest rock was found by Apollo 14 astronauts -- on the moon. Ashley Strickland, CNN, January 24, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/world/earth-oldest-rock-moon/index.html

We May Have Found Earth's Oldest Known Rock. It Was on The Moon. Michelle Starr, January 25, 2019
https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-oldest-rock-may-have-been-found-it-was-um-on-the-moon

The paper is:

J.J. Bellucci, A.A. Nemchin, M. Grange, K.L. Robinson, G. Collinse, M.J. Whitehouse, J.F. Snape, M.D.Norman D.A.Krin
Terrestrial-like zircon in a clast from an Apollo 14 breccia
Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Volume 510, Pages 173-185
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X19300202

Yours,

Paul H.

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