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| | Travel: Natural gains: 'The Rock' endures |
 | | Sprawling across 1,320 square miles of mountains, lakes, forests and coastline, Gros Morne is on the must-see list for geologists around the world. |
 | | Hingston, the park interpreter who is a mineral geologist by education, hands park visitors pieces of limestone, shale, granite, chirt (probably mined here 5,000 years ago because it yields flint) and the soapstone called serpentine because of its scaly surface pattern. |
 | | Standing before the harsh vertical lines of cliffs that plunge into the sand, Hingston announces that this place, Green Point, has been designated a world stratotype: a visible example of the overlapping boundary between the Cambrian and Ordovician periods of about 510-million years ago. |
| www.sptimes.com /2005/07/10/Travel/Natural_gains___The_R.shtml (1325 words) |
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