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News Release 05-068
New Thermometer Confirms Wet Conditions on Earliest Earth
Ancient zircons provide history
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A single zircon from Earth's earliest history shows ion-probe age (1); crystallization temperatures (2); and internal chemical structure (3).
Credit: Bruce Watson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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