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The rocks at the very summit of Mount Everest are limestone formed on an ancient ocean floor, and fossils of trilobites, sea lilies, and tiny crustaceans have been found in samples collected just six metres below the top of the highest point on Earth - Space Daily

The rocks at the very summit of Mount Everest are limestone formed on an ancient ocean floor, and fossils of trilobites, sea lilies, and tiny crustaceans have been found in samples collected just six metres below the top of the highest point on Earth - Space Daily

The summit of Everest is usually imagined as the opposite of an ocean floor. It is the highest point on Earth above sea level, a wind-scoured place where the

The summit of Everest is usually imagined as the opposite of an ocean floor. It is the highest point on Earth above sea level, a wind-scoured place where the air is thin, the temperature is brutal an… [+7781 chars]

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