Contact: Stephen Mojzsis
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University of Colorado at Boulder

Doctoral Student Nicole Cates and Assistant Professor Stephen Mojzsis

Caption: Doctoral student Nicole Cates and Assistant Professor Stephen Mojzsis survey a landscape of ancient rocks in Hudson Bay, Quebec, in Canada confirmed by the CU-Boulder team to date back roughly 3.75 billion years, making them among the most oldest known rocks on Earth.

Credit: Image courtesy CU-Boulder

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