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The ocean is becoming hotter, more polluted, and, in places, empty of life. As i sit typing this, my favourite books from my childhood are on the bookshelves behind me. In cambrian ocean world, john foster demonstrates how some of the most challenging and significant questions about the early diversification of animal life in the sea can be addressed by the extensive fossil and rock record of the cambrian period found across north america. A global bestseller and one of the best business strategy books available, blue. Water is essential for the formation of granite and granite, in turn, is essential for the formation of continents. The stromatolite fossils lie on the eilean dubh formation, a geologic stratum often marked by coral and shell fossils.
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