Zircon: Earth’s Oldest Crystal?

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Researchers recently published an article in Nature Geoscience highlighting findings from their analysis of a detrital zircon from Australia. BBC News has cited this mineral as the “oldest scrap of Earth crust”—is this conclusion accurate?

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