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Hadean

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Hadean [′hā·dē·ən]
(geology)
The period (more than 3800 million years ago) extending for several hundred millions of years from the end of the accretion of the earth to the formation of the oldest recognized rocks.


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The earliest evidence of stable continents and oceans and records thought to implicate primitive life seems to point to the late Hadean (the Dark Ages)--early Precambrian era, about 4 billion years ago.
His collection of poetry, Hadean Eclogues (Consortium), and his book, Shakespeare's Twenty-First-Century Economics: The Morality of Love and Money (Oxford University Press), both appeared this year.
His sculptures are like hadean ghosts, mnemonic traces of a world of art that no longer exists.
 
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