Precambrian - Research Article from World of Earth Science

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 2 pages of information about Precambrian.

Precambrian - Research Article from World of Earth Science

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In geologic time, Precambrian time encompasses the time from Earth's formation, approximately 4.5 billion years ago, until the start of the Cambrian approximately 540 million years ago (mya). Because the Precambrian is not a true geologic eon, era, period, or epoch, geologists often refer to it as Precambrian time (or simply, Precambrian). Precambrian time represents the vast bulk of Earth's geologic history and covers nearly 90% of Earth's history.

Although scientists do not yet know all the exact steps by which the earth formed, cooled, and took on its approximate shape and physical characteristics, a good deal of reliable evidence can be inferred from studies that concentrate on the formation of landmass, oceans, and atmosphere. Astrophysical data—and theories of physics that explain the evolution of physical law and nucelosynthesis—make these studies of Earth's formation both possible and reliable because the same laws of physics and chemistry that exist now...

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