Word: reinholt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan. Fossil seaweeds have been found as old as 1,200,000,000 years. In a quarry between the north and south iron veins of the Menominee Range, a dynamite blast exposed Proterozoic seaweed which Oscar Halvorsen Reinholt, geologist and mining engineer, pronounced 1,500,000,000 years old. "The upper Michigan peninsula," said he, "now takes precedence over the section near Saratoga Springs, N. Y., as the oldest region in which life forms are known to have existed." Harvard's Peabody Museum eagerly sent for samples...
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