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To: X Fretensis

They do but imagine the odds against their preservation over such time and through so many plate shifts and restructuring. A whole lot of recycling going on.


12 posted on 11/14/2013 6:28:28 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA
They do but imagine the odds against their preservation over such time and through so many plate shifts and restructuring.

I believe the two oldest cratons are in Australia and South Africa.

A related fact is that half of all the gold ever mined comes from a very large meteorite that impacted what is now South Africa some two billion years ago.

15 posted on 11/16/2013 4:07:18 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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