Canadian Legacy
As Canadians we are proud of lots of things.
We have helped develop the space program, ruled the hockey world, gone to war for good reasons (sometimes), and countless others.
But when you speak of legacy I think about things that are old or really old.
So... I have found our new hope, and it is a rock.
None other than an Acasta Gneiss to be exact.
What is it you say, well it is a metamorphic rock that dates back to 3.96 billion years and it was found in the Northwest Territories of good old Canada.
Now doesn't that make you proud? I would say yes.
See the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, but at first it was just a big sea of magma that kept getting smashed by meteors so it really didn't form any crust until about 4.4 billion years. Now this stuff was pretty weak and kept getting destroyed and remade over the next bunch of million years. Then the earth finally started producing some solid crust that we know today, around the time that our famous rock was made.
This sucka has been around for a long time.
Okay so maybe you aren't as proud as I am about that...
Well I got something else for you then,
How about the oldest Metazoan.
What is that you say, well it is the first group of complex multicellular organisms, and you guessed it, the first one was found in good old Canada as well.
Out in Newfoundland, Portugal Cove there was a find of the oldest metazoans... it doesn't look like much but to the trained (crazy) eye you can tell that this two metre long lump was actually a living creature. This is nowhere near as old as the rock at only 575 million years but still... there was nobody else around at that time either.
What is also funny is that this was found to be about 10 million years older than the previous known sample which was found just down the road in Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.
So next time you are talking to some bigheaded american or a Plato preaching greek just tell them we have the stones, so look out or we will throw them at you.
Slater
We have helped develop the space program, ruled the hockey world, gone to war for good reasons (sometimes), and countless others.
But when you speak of legacy I think about things that are old or really old.
So... I have found our new hope, and it is a rock.
None other than an Acasta Gneiss to be exact.
What is it you say, well it is a metamorphic rock that dates back to 3.96 billion years and it was found in the Northwest Territories of good old Canada.
Now doesn't that make you proud? I would say yes.
See the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, but at first it was just a big sea of magma that kept getting smashed by meteors so it really didn't form any crust until about 4.4 billion years. Now this stuff was pretty weak and kept getting destroyed and remade over the next bunch of million years. Then the earth finally started producing some solid crust that we know today, around the time that our famous rock was made.This sucka has been around for a long time.
Okay so maybe you aren't as proud as I am about that...
Well I got something else for you then,
How about the oldest Metazoan.
What is that you say, well it is the first group of complex multicellular organisms, and you guessed it, the first one was found in good old Canada as well.
Out in Newfoundland, Portugal Cove there was a find of the oldest metazoans... it doesn't look like much but to the trained (crazy) eye you can tell that this two metre long lump was actually a living creature. This is nowhere near as old as the rock at only 575 million years but still... there was nobody else around at that time either.
What is also funny is that this was found to be about 10 million years older than the previous known sample which was found just down the road in Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.
So next time you are talking to some bigheaded american or a Plato preaching greek just tell them we have the stones, so look out or we will throw them at you.
Slater
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