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Formação da Terra
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Há cerca de 4600
milhões de anos, no
seio da matéria que
rodeava o Sol,
formou-se a Terra.
A partir da aglutinação
de planetesimais e de
fenómenos de acreção,
formou-se um
protoplaneta de baixa
densidade, de
composição heterogénea,
mas com disposição
homogénea dos
elementos constituintes .
Após a acreção, os
materiais, sofreram
fusões no seu interior, em
virtude do calor
produzido por todas as
colisões de que foram
alvo e do calor
produzido por reacções
nucleares de elementos
presentes no seu interior.
forma-se a primeira
verdadeira crusta
continental, que se
movia e flutuava
sobre o material
mais denso que se
encontrava por
baixo.
They were analyzed by scientists at McGill University in Montreal and the Carnegie Institution's terrestrial magnetism
department in Washington D.C. They concluded the rocks were 250 million years older than previous rock samples.
Jonathan O'Neil is a student at McGill who helped analyze the rocks. He says the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old, about
300,000 years older than the oldest discovered rock.
In an interview with the editors of Science, which published a paper on the discovery, O'Neil says the extremely rare rocks
should offer invaluable clues as to the formation of the Earth's early crust.
"If you want to study the primordial crust, or how the first crust formed, we actually need to have terrain," he said. "We need to
have rocks of that age. And they are pretty rare. So the idea is to identify and have these old rocks and then when we
confirm the age, now we can start to ask questions, "Okay, are these rocks different? Did the crust back then, did it form
exactly like how the crust forms today?"
Experts say ancient rocks are extremely rare because the primordial crust was crushed and recycled into the Earth's interior
many times by plate tectonics, the movement of the planet's early crust that led in the formation of continents.
Scientists say geologists have found older mineral grains called zircons in Western Australia. The oldest zircon was
dated to 4.35 billion years.
Experts say a mineral analysis of the oldest of the rocks suggests it was made of ancient volcanic deposits.
A atmosfera terrestre
primordial parece ter sido
formada basicamente
pelos gases capturados na
nebulosa solar primitiva,
que posteriormente foram
removidos pelo intenso
vento solar.
Composta por
azoto e metano,
a atmosfera de
Titã é
semelhante à
atmosfera da
Terra primitiva.