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An investigation of climate change, global and
continent-scale tectonic processes, and the evolutionary history of life over
the last 4.5 billion years.
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"Geologists inhabit scenes that no one ever saw,
scenes of global sweep, gone and gone again, including seas, mountains,
rivers, forests, and archipelagoes of aching beauty rising in volcanic
violence to settle down quietly and then forever disappear --- almost
disappear." John McPhee |
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