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Mount Roraima is over 2 billion years old, predating animals, trees, and dinosaurs. Its sheer 400-meter cliffs isolate an ecosystem found nowhere else on Earth (lemmy.nz)
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[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

The universe is 13.8 billion years old, but we say Earth is 4.6 billion, because that is when it formed. This mountain range formed 2 billion years ago. Here is some rock that is just a few minutes old. https://www.youtube.com/usgs/live

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