Joseph V. Smith

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Joseph V. Smith

English geologist

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geologic history of Earth
The pregeologic period
According to the English-born geologist Joseph V. Smith, a minimum of 500 to 1,000 impact basins were formed on Earth within a period of about 100 to 200 million years prior to 3.95 billion years ago. Moreover, plausible calculations suggest that this estimate represents merely the tail end of an…
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According to the English-born geologist Joseph V. Smith, a minimum of 500 to 1,000 impact basins were formed on Earth within a period of about 100 to 200 million years prior to 3.95 billion years ago. Moreover, plausible calculations suggest that this estimate represents merely the tail end of an…
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