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I thought dust was human skin cells? What is this dust layer
There's, uh, lots of different kinds of dust.
Also that one is mostly a myth.
mineral aerosols.
here is a recent paper trying to figure out the composition from ice core samples for a given age range and location
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37061058/