Scientists have found that 4.02-billion-year-old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada – the oldest rock formation known on Earth – probably formed at high temperatures and at a surprisingly shallow depth of the planet’s nascent crust. The high temperatures needed to melt the shallow crust were likely caused by a meteorite bombardment around half a billion years after the planet formed.
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I find the use of the word “create” here to be both appropriate and and a counter-point.
I read earlier about 4.2 Billion year old fossils of bacteria found in canada… Is this the same area?