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A new picture of the early Earth

DEC 02, 2008

DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.022900

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The New York Times : The first 700 million years of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year existence are known as the Hadean period, after Hades, or, to shed the ancient Greek name, Hell.
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