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[OM] Acient Creature [was off course]

Subject: [OM] Acient Creature [was off course]
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:26:37 -0700
On 7/8/2012 8:12 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> No, not long at all. The Caledonian Orogeny is relatively recent - only 450
> million years ago (in round numbers). If you had come north last year I
> could have shown you some *really* old stuff (aside from a regularly used
> camera which is more than 60 years old) - rock from almost 3Ga ago (3
> thousand million years) at Oldshoremore:
>
> First, the beach:
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/img/P9132209.jpg
>
> Second, the cliff seen in the previous image, showing the characteristic mix
> of deeply twisted basaltic and granitic rock:
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/img/P9132211.jpg

Quite a twinkle in its eye, for such an ancient creature! :-) 
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Misc&image=P9132211a.jpg>

Sharp eyed Moose

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