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Malaysian discovery sheds new light on early Earth

Thursday 24 May 2018

Geologists from Curtin Malaysia have dated a grain of zircon at 4.2 billion years old, making it the second-oldest rock ever discovered, behind another rock also found by Curtin geologists in 2001.

Curtin geologists make a ‘shocking’ discovery

Monday 23 January 2012

Research led by Curtin University geologists has uncovered a wealth of new evidence in the mineral zircon from lunar rock samples recovered during NASA’s Apollo missions, revealing indisputable proof of meteorite collisions on the Moon.

By Andrea Barnard | Research; Engineering and mining; Physical sciences and mathematics

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