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| Give the details about the Quaternary Period. What are the epochs of the Quarternary? What is its order in the geologic scale? |
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| Cenozoic Era, two epochs, Recent & Pleistocene. The Cenozoic is the most recent time period in Earth history. |
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| What are the epochs of the Tertiary Period? |
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| Cenozoic ERA, 5 epochs, Pliocene Miocene, Oligocene, Eocene, Paleocene |
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| What are the Periods of the Cenozoic Era? |
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| The Quaternary Period which includes the RECENT and the PLEISTOCENE epochs in that order. |
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| Give the details about the Tertiary Period in the Cenozoic Era. |
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| In geologic time starting with the most recent & ending with the most distant: Pliocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Eocene and Paleocene. |
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| What Era precedes the Cenozoic? |
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| What are the time periods of the Mesozoic? |
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| In geologic time starting with the most recent & ending with the most distant: Cretaceous, Jurassic, and Triassic. |
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| Give the details in time order of the Paleozoic Era. |
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| In geologic time starting with the most recent & ending with the most distant: Permian, Pennsylvanian, Mississippian, Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician, Cambrian |
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| What era comes before the Paleozoic? |
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