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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: significance, we expected to unearth a quite unprecedented amount
of material - especially in the pre-Cambrian strata of which so
narrow a range of antarctic specimens had previously been secured.
We wished also to obtain as great as possible a variety of the
upper fossiliferous rocks, since the primal life history of this
bleak realm of ice and death is of the highest importance to our
knowledge of the earth’s past. That the antarctic continent was
once temperate and even tropical, with a teeming vegetable and
animal life of which the lichens, marine fauna, arachnida, and
penguins of the northern edge are the only survivals, is a matter
of common information; and we hoped to expand that information
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