[meteorite-list] Slightly off topic... sorry

From: Steven Singletary <jumper_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:39 2004
Message-ID: <200201022238.RAA24264_at_melbourne-city-street.mit.edu>

Not the oldest -

The Acasta Gneiss has that distinction at just a tad over 4 Ga. That said,
I might have a sample from Isua lying around here somewhere. I'll check
tomorrow and get back to you.

At 10:09 PM 1/2/02 +0000, Dave Harris wrote:
>Hello,
>Yup, slightly off topic but I am doing a geology and planetary science
>degree and I was wanting to find out if anyone knew where I could acquire a
>portion of Isua Formation rock? This stuff is the oldest rock formation on
>Earth (at about 3.8BYA) and I was just interested to have a small piece for
>my collection.
>
>thanks for that!
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Received on Wed 02 Jan 2002 05:38:49 PM PST