Panel 07: Rock: Not Always A Hard Place

• Main Authors: Liebes, Sid, Mittelstadt, Laurie, Waugh, Barbara, Brynes, Lois
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks at University of Montana 1997
• Subjects: Great Slave Lake
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/awalkthroughtime/7; https://scholarworks.umt.edu/context/awalkthroughtime/article/1006/type/native/viewcontent/07_wtt_file01_1_19.jpg

Earth processes cycle so powerfully that little evidence remains of early planetary faces and flows. Critical and intriguing clues lie in the formulation of Earth rocks and minerals when compared to those on the Moon and other planets. The oldest mineral crystals on Earth, zircons from western Austr...