This rock is located near Great Bear Lake in the northwestern part of Canada.
The world’s oldest rock is in Canada, called the Acasta Gneiss.
This small rock is found near the Acasta River in northwestern Canada and is approximately 4.03 billion years old.
Experts have determined it using a radiometric dating method based on uranium and lead. The type of rock is Gneiss. Its samples are kept in various geological museums around the world, such as the Smithsonian Institution in the United States and the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.
The specialty of this rock is that it is one of the first surface rocks on Earth that formed when the Earth was still hot and young. This rock indicates that the Earth’s crust had already begun to form 4 billion years ago.
The Acasta Gneiss is located near Great Bear Lake in northwestern Canada. Access there is only given to specific geologists for research purposes.
