What is the oldest rock in the world?
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The Acasta Gneiss in the Canadian Shield in the Northwest Territories, Canada is composed of the Archaean igneous and gneissic cores of ancient mountain chains that have been exposed in a glacial peneplain. Analyses of zircons from a felsic orthogneiss with presumed granitic protolith returned an age of 4.031 ±0.003 Ga.
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Australia
20
Greece
15
India
43
Germany
93
Poland
1646
the United Kingdom
31
the United States
82
Austria
13
Republic of Ireland
12