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Fossils represent a very tiny portion of whatever was there at that time.


Yes, but the point is the 1.7 M number for total crust turnover can't be valid, as none of that tiny portion would still exist.


I find it hard to believe that there won't be at least some human fossils lying around 60 million years from now.


It’s an angle that a funeral directors could use as a selling point - Fossilisation.


In Gene Wolfe's SF/fantasy tetralogy The Book of the New Sun, set very far in the future, he refers to corpses preserved by extreme means and rendered essentially indestructible and basically just cluttering up the world.


see Ancient Egypt




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