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    <title>story of earth &amp; life</title>
    <subTitle>a southern Africa perspective on a 4.6 billion-year journey</subTitle>
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    <title>Story of earth and life</title>
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    <namePart>McCarthy, Terence</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1910-</namePart>
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    <namePart>Rubisge, Bruce.</namePart>
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    <namePart>University of the Witwatersrand</namePart>
    <namePart>School of Geosciences.</namePart>
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    <namePart>Kumba Resources</namePart>
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    <publisher>Struik</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2005</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2023</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>333 pages: illustration (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Terence McCarthy, Bruce Rubidge.</note>
  <note>"Complied by staff of the School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg."</note>
  <note>"Kumba Resources."</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Historical geology</topic>
    <geographic>Africa, Southern</geographic>
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    <geographic>Earth (Planet)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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