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To: ETL

...actually, most volcanoes too are the result of plate collision/plate tectonics. But that’s really another subject.

Also metamorphic rocks can have their mineralogical ‘clocks’ ‘reset’ by later periods of plate tectonic activity/mountain building, and so can appear to be younger than they actually are. However, as far as I know, none can be made to appear older than they actually are. And so one with a date of, say, 3.2 billion years, is at least that old. Make sense?


7 posted on 01/25/2016 10:58:15 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

Subduction of water, granitic volcanics, a little time and you’ve got plate margin volcanos. You’ve got it!! As well with the blue schist, etc.


12 posted on 01/25/2016 11:27:18 AM PST by JimSEA
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