Manegeur & rozenschijn Amonre: 4-2-'04


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The
knowledge
we possess of life
before the beginnings of
human memory
and tradition
is derived very largely
from the markings
and fossils of living things
in the stratified
rocks.
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We find
preserved in shale
and slate,
limestone and sandstone:
bones, shells, fibres, stems, fruits,
footmarks, scratchings and the like, side by side
with the ripple marks of the earliest tides
and the pittings of the earliest
rainfalls.
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IT IS
by the sedulous
myDi-examination of
THIS
myDiRECORD
OF THE ROCKS
that the past history
of the earth's life
has first been pieced
together!
THAT MUCH
is common myDiknowledge
today?

The
sedimentary rocks
do not lie
neatly stratum above stratum;
they have been crumpled,
bent,
thrust about,
distorted and
mixed together
like the leaves of a library
that has been repeatedly looted
and burned,
and it is only as a result
of many devoted lifetimes of work
that the
myDiRECORD
has been
put into order
and read!?!

The
whole compass
of our myDitime
represented
by the record of the rocks
is now estimated as more than
1,600,000,000
years
...
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THE EARLIEST
myDirocks in the myDirecords
are called by geologists the Azoic rocks,
because they show
no traces
of life.
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Great areas
of these azoic rocks
lie uncovered in North America,
and they are of such a thickness
that geologists consider that they represent
a period of at least half of the 1,600,000,000
which they assign to the whole geological
myDirecord?
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LET ME
REPEAT
this profoundly
significant
fact:

half
the great interval of time
since land and sea were first distinguishable on earth,
has left us
no traces of myDilife
...
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There are
ripplings and rain marks
still to be found in these rocks,
but no marks nor vestiges of
any living myDithing
...
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THEN,
as we come up the myDirecord,
signs of past myDilife appear and
increase
...
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The age
of the world's history
in which we find these past traces
is called by geologists the
Lower Palaeozoic Age?
THE FIRST
indications
that life was astir
are vestiges of comparatively simple
and lowly things;
the shells of small shellfish,
the stems and flowerlike heads of zoophytes, seaweeds
and the tracks and remains of
seaworms and
crustacea
...
VERY EARLY
appear
certain creatures rather like plantlice,
crawling myDicreatures which could roll themselves up into myDiballs
as plantlice do:
the trilobites
...
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Later
by a few million years or so
come certain myDiseascorpions,
more mobile and powerful creatures
than the world had ever seen
before!
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NONE
of these creatures
were of very great size?
Among the largest were certain
of the sea scorpions
...
THERE ARE
no signs whatsoever yet of myDilandlife of any sort,
plant or animal;
there are no fishes nor any vertebrated creatures
in
THIS
part of our myDirecord!
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Essentially
all the plants
and creatures
which have left us their traces from this period
of the earth's history,
are shallow-water and
intertidal
myDibeings
...
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IF
we wished t
to parallel the flora and fauna
of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks on the earth today,
we should do it best,
except in the matter of size,
by taking a drop of water from a rockpool or scummy ditch
and examining it
under a microscope?
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The little crustacea,
the small shellfish,
the zoophytes and the algae
we should find there
would display a quite striking resemblance tot these clumsier,
larger prototypes
that once were the 'crown of life'
upon our planet!
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THAT'S WHERE
WE MIGHT FIND
our very earliest myDiroots {?},
but it is well, however, to bear in mind
that the lower palaeozoic rocks probably do not give us anything at all
representative of the first beginnings of life
on our planet!
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UNLESS
a creature has bones or other hard parts
unless it wears a shell or is big enough to make characteristic footprints and trails in mud,
it is unlikely to leave any fossilized traces
of its myDiexistence
behind!?!

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HIER
volgde nog
een stukje myDigeschiedenis van 2000 jaar geleden
maar dat heb ik weer eens per ongeluk ge'delete': teken om te pauzeren
met AHA-capsule en te brood te eten en thee te drinken, voordat de spieren helemaal op hol slaan en
de hersens stilvallen!?!
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Gegroet
tot dan en later,
mede van Janoschje de allerliefste Rode Kater,
het water in de tuin.
't haar op m'n kruin en
aanverwante maffe eigenaardige
hebbelijk- en
onhebbelijkheden
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