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Old 04-01-2012, 10:57 PM
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Karl,

Technically speaking you don't want a geologist, you want a soil scientist. That stuff you dug through is a deeply-weathered soil profile, not a rock. The parent rock has been weathered (chemically altered) but not eroded (transported). The process has gone over about 60 million years (give or take) which surely makes it one of oldest such formations on Earth.
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