Slabs of North America are layered like cake

Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 11:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The continent of North America is not a single, thick, rigid slab, but is instead more similar to a layer cake, with a section of 3-billion-year-old rock sitting atop much newer material, a new study that probes the depth of the continent finds. Cake - Cooking - Layer cake - Home - Baking and Confections

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