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Mount Roraima is over 2 billion years old, predating animals, trees, and dinosaurs. Its sheer 400-meter cliffs isolate an ecosystem found nowhere else on Earth (thelemmy.club)
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4 billion years is how long ago matter came together to form our planet. This structure formed 2 billion years ago, before that its matter was part of other structures.

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