The Precambrian in Pennsylvania, US

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Paleontology and geology

During the Late Precambrian, Pennsylvania was mainly a low, featureless plain sloping gently southeastward toward the sea. Most of Pennsylvania's exposed Precambrian rocks are metamorphic and igneous, and thus lack fossils.


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