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HADEAN EON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life
Synonyms:
Hadean; Hadean aeon; Hadean eon; Hadean time; Priscoan; Priscoan aeon; Priscoan eon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
aeon; eon (the longest division of geological time)