Michigan Upper Peninsula Geology, Missouri Prairie, Texas Limestone Remnants Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

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In this episode, CPBBD traverses 20 degrees of latitude to bring you lognwinded rants on the following topics :
-stromatolites
-banded Iron formations & the Great Oxygenation Event of the Proterozoic 
-Michigan Serpentine 
-"conservative species" and the Floristic Quality Assessment
-Silphium albiflorum
and much more. 
 
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