How Old Is the Oldest Rock
Zircon Crystals Are Almost Indestructible; Some Still Around Today Are Nearly 4.4 Billion Year's Old. How Did the First Rocks on Earth Form? the First Igneous...
How did the first rocks on Earth form?
The first igneous rocks on Earth (or to be exact – the proto-Earth) likely formed by impact melting of various small planetary bodies hitting each other and coalescing to form the Earth. These planetesimals formed by condensation of gas from the solar nebula, before Earth even existed, and before the rock cycle began.
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