Acasta Gneiss - Exhibit

Exhibit

In 2003 a team from the Smithsonian Institution collected a four-tonne boulder of Acasta Gneiss for display outside the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. There is also a sample of it exposed in the Museu de Geociências da Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.

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