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The Geologic Timescale

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Earth'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. 
 

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