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[TIL] Soil did not exist before Cenozoic period (the period since the Dinosaur mass extinction event) (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 4 months ago by ccunning to c/todayilearned

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Little of the soil of planet Earth is older than the Pleistocene and none is older than the Cenozoic, although fossilized soils are preserved from as far back as the Archean.

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[–] ccunning 5 points 4 months ago

I wasn’t sure I agreed with your reading, so I went to go read the source sited for the claim and the entire domain hosting it has been seized by the FBI 😅

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