Oldest part of the Netherlands is 420 million years old and found in Zeeland
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Oldest part of the Netherlands is 420 million years old and found in Zeeland

NL Times  

For a long time it was thought that the 330 million year old rock, found in the Heimansgroeve in South Limburg, was the oldest material in the Netherlands. Geologists from the Geological Service of the Netherlands, part of TNO, have examined microscopic fossils from a 1982 borehole near Kortgene in Zeeland and now establish that the rock is even older: 420 million years. "Under the microscope, I saw fossil remains of primitive primeval plants, which first settled on land more than 400 million years ago." In 420 million years, the rock has survived four mass extinctions, Houben continues.

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