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   From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   John wrote:   
   >> Ancient modern tools. While quarrying limestone in 1786, workers came   
   >> to a bed of sand about 50 feet below ground level. In the layer of   
   >> sand, however, they found the stumps of stone pillars and fragments   
   >> of half-worked rock. Digging further, they found coins, the petrified   
   >> wooden handles of hammers, and pieces of other petrified wooden   
   >> tools. The sand in which the discovery was made was beneath a layer   
   >> of limestone dated at 300 million years old.   
   >   
   >   
   > How do they know it is 300 million years old? Where they there 300   
   > million years ago to see it?   
   >   
   > I suggest it is 4,300 years old max.   
      
   More likely, tha sand and debris washed into a crack in older rock?   
      
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