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Age of Indian basins may be off by millions of years

After researching for six weeks in India, geologists believe they have been wrong from the beginning, literally.
A team of geologists studying the Vindhyan basin of India has dated the area to be about 1,073 million years old. Fossil organisms in these basins are also significantly older than previously thought.
Until this discovery last July, the basins [...]

Filed under Announcements, In Focus, InsideUF (Campus) on Tuesday, January 20, 2009.