Science Café – From Molten Magma to Modern World: Exploring the Early History of Earth
As part of ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University’s Science Café series, Prof. Hanika Rizo in the will present .
When: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa
Info: This event is free and open to the public.
Media are invited to attend the event.
Rocky planets like Earth formed within the first hundreds of millions of years of our solar system. Growing through impacts by planetary bodies, the energy and heat of these events created magma oceans and important chemical changes on our planet – including the formation of the Earth’s metallic core. These early geological processes led to the formation of our modern world.
But how do we know the age of the Earth, or that it was a molten ball of magma early in its history? There are no rocks from that period and no geological record from these events. This presentation will explore how scientists have been able to find evidence from Earth’s early existence and will discuss how evidence may still lurk in our planet’s interior.
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