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Re:World’s Oldest Fossils Now Appear to Be Squished Rocks by mcguire on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:44PM (#18279239)
The timeline in the article shows the Late Heavy Bombardment dropping lots of asteroids on the Earth until about 3.8B years ago. The alleged stromatolites are from ~3.7Bya. 200My at that point isa but of a big deal.
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Re:World’s Oldest Fossils Now Appear to Be Squished Rocks by cbkeller on Monday October 22, 2018 @10:50PM (#18280385)
There's also an active debate about whether the LHB actually happened, which adds to the stakes a bit: http://www.pnas.org/content/113/39/10802
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