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[TIL] Soil did not exist before Cenozoic period (the period since the Dinosaur mass extinction event) (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Little of the soil of planet Earth is older than the Pleistocene and none is older than the Cenozoic, although fossilized soils are preserved from as far back as the Archean.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

This is incorrect. Very little of the soil that existed before the Cenozoic has been preserved. There was soil. The wikipedia article you linked states this.