Go my Sons, buy stout shoes, climb the mountains,
search the valleys, the deserts, the sea shores,
and hte deep recesses of the earth ... for in this way
and no other will you arrive at a knowledge of nature
and the properties of things

P. Severinus (circa 1778)


Key words or concepts:
PreCambrian is poorly known

preCambrian was much different from the present

How did continents form?

Wilson Cycles

Useful links:

Earth Science Picture of the Day

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