This one-time bed of the Paleozoic sea between archaean shores, raised in time above the ocean and enriched of the mountains that through millions of years were gradually to be worn down by the natural forces of the valley, and finally, as we have seen, opened by the French as a new- created world to be peopled by the old world, then overflowing its brim, became all of it in the space of a single lifetime the property of a few million human beings, their heirs, and assigns forever.
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley
They appear in contact with archaean, Algonkian or early Palaeozoic rocks.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays"
J. (John) Joly
The ancient formation which thus marks the beginnings of the solid surface of the globe is commonly called by geologists the archaean rock, and the myriads of uncounted years during which it slowly took shape are called the archaean age.
"The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada"
Stephen Leacock