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A History of Rock

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What's the Basic Anchor Point of Dating Rock Formations?

Geology is why there's a strip of dem votas in the south, says Quotumue. The reason has to do with where the soil is appropriate for growing cotton. We have rocks going back pretty much to the origin of the solar system - four and a half million years old. But we're not totally happy until we start to see oxygen really increasing in the atmosphere. And that's when we know life had really got going on earth.

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