In 2013, a paper printed online within the journal Natural Geoscience, revealed that the Genesis Rock and different lunar anorthosites had large traces of water. The new analysis suggests that the early Moon was wet when it shaped – this contradicts the predominant lunar formation principle that the Moon was shaped from debris generated during an enormous impression between Earth and one other planetary physique. Prior to the discovery of the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, the Acasta Gneiss was the oldest rock formation found on Earth, the oldest parts of which date back to about 4.031 billion years. However, as a result of competition surrounding the strategies used to determine the age of the Nuvvuagittuq rocks, many people still consider the Acasta Gneiss the oldest known intact crustal rock ever discovered. In addition to those historic rock formations, a number of the oldest rocks on the planet came from outer area … Read More