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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the period of time during which Earth formed, from the start of the solar system (4.6 billion years ago) until accretion, impact, and cooling led to stable Earth-Moon orbits and the formation of the earliest rocks on Earth (3.8 billion years ago).
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- adjective geology Of, or relating to the
geologic eon from about 4,600 to 3,800 million years ago; marked by the formation of thesolar system , a stableEarth -Moon orbit and the firstrocks . - noun geology The Hadean eon.
Etymologies
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This is known as the Hadean aeon, the earliest aeon of the Earths history.
George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009
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This is known as the Hadean aeon, the earliest aeon of the Earths history.
George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009
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This is known as the Hadean aeon, the earliest aeon of the Earths history.
George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009
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This is known as the Hadean aeon, the earliest aeon of the Earths history.
George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Lucy 2009
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"Behold the Lamb of God, that beareth off the sin of the world," his meaning was that Jesus was to bear off the penalty of sin that is, the Hadean doom which God's free grace had annulled and open heaven to the ranks of reconciled souls.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Actually, during the entire Hadean Eon and part of the Archean Eon the "Earth" was essentially an "all water" planet.
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The scene was surrealthe jagged, ferocious landscape, the black water, the sheer Hadean ambiance.
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The geological evidence to date indicates that there have been at least three supercontinent cycles since the end of the Hadean Eon.
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For example, Hadean Eon represents the time on Earth when life did not exist.
Geologic time 2010
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Last year, for example, it hosted an event titled " The End of Time: A New Beginning, " where pamphlets were distributed showing Manhattan crumbling under a Hadean apocalypse of meteors, which shattered the Statute of Liberty asunder and set the city ablaze.
Empowering Islamists Shiraz Maher 2010
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My friend and former officemate Kevin Zahnle at NASA, one of the galaxy’s top experts on planetary origins and evolution, has referred to the Hadean as ‘a world of exuberant volcanism, exploding meteors, huge craters, infernal heat, and billowing sulphurous steams; that is, a world of fire and brimstone punctuated with blows to the head’.
Enter the Sapiezoic: a new aeon of self-aware global change – David Grinspoon | Aeon Essays David Grinspoon 2023
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