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12022-08-02T20:01:48+00:00The Geologic Timescale1The Geologic Timescaleplain2022-08-02T20:01:48+00:00Earth's history begins 4.5 billion years ago. Most fossil fuels formed considerably more recently in Earth's history.
On Bryn Mawr's campus, if Earth formed at the Moon Bench -- and ends when the Sun consumes it, at the end of Senior Row -- then the entirety of human civilization, from the Agricultural Revolution to today -- is the width of a human hair.
