Precambrian in A Sentence

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    PreCambrian rocks are represented by the gneisses of Primrose Hill and schists of Rushton in Shropshire; by the gneisses forming the core of the Malvern Hills, and by the ancient volcanic and other rocks of the Wrekin, Charnwood Forest and Nuneaton.

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    The MT survey confirmed the existence of a Mesozoic sedimentary basin between lava flows and the Precambrian basement.

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    The oil was produced from fractured PreCambrian quartzite on the summits of the buried hills.

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    The oil was produced from fractured Precambrian quartzite on the summits of the buried hills.

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    The Wrekin, the Caradoc and Cardington Hills are isolated outbursts of preCambrian volcanic rocks.

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    Walcott has described a tiny lamellibranch (Modioloides) from the inferior Cambrian, and he reports the gastropod (?) genus Chuaria from the preCambrian.