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After all, the ever-changing Earth rarely left a complete geological record. The age of the planet, though, was important to Charles Darwin and other evolutionary theorists: The biological ...

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There was also considerable progress in the use of natural systems of geologic age to provide both quantitative data for long-term extrapolations of the behavior of waste forms in a geologic ...