Question

Where on Earth’s surface do you think scientists can locate rocks from the Precambrian era? How do scientists determine the age of the rocks they’re analyzing? What types of tests or analyses do you think scientists would conduct on a rock from the Precambrian era? Lastly, how does understanding the Precambrian era enhance our chances of finding another planet that could one day support life?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

How worn out and weatherd the rocks are inside and outside the rock!

So far scientists have not found a way to determine the exact age of the Earth directly from Earth rocks because Earth's oldest rocks have been recycled and destroyed by the process of plate tectonics. If there are any of Earth's primordial rocks left in their original state, they have not yet been found. Nevertheless, scientists have been able to determine the probable age of the Solar System and to calculate an age for the Earth by assuming that the Earth and the rest of the solid bodies in the Solar System formed at the same time and are, therefore, of the same age. The ages of Earth and Moon rocks and of meteorites are measured by the decay of long-lived radioactive isotopes of elements that occur naturally in rocks and minerals and that decay with half lives of 700 million to more than 100 billion years to stable isotopes of other elements. These dating techniques, which are firmly grounded in physics and are known collectively as radiometric dating, are used to measure the last time that the rock being dated was either melted or disturbed sufficiently to rehomogenize its radioactive elements.

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Answer 2

Precambrian Era rocks are some of the oldest on the earth. they can be found in ancient regions of the continents called cratons. A craton can be found in South Africa but the oldest rocks to date can be found in Australia. Precambrian Era rocks require a radiometric dating method that is accurate for such a long time. An appropriate method to use is uranium lead radiometric dating. The Precambrian Era on earth was a hostile one. it's important to study it because many planets could have or could have had the same conditions and it is a step to finding out how life evolved on earth.