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30 Cards in this Set
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Hadean
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"heavy bombardment", moon formation
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Archean
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"primordial soup", prokaryotes
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Proterozoic
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oxygen buildup, multicellular life
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Cambrian
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marine invertebrates, shelly marine life
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Ordovician
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warm shallow seas, jawless fish, global glaciation
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Silurian
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first land plants, insects, vertebrates
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Devonian
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age of diverse fish
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Carboniferous
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amphibians, Appalacian mountains
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Permian
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reptiles, Pangaea
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Triassic
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Breakup of Pangaea, formation of gulf of mexico, dinosaurs, mammals
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Jurassic
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Dinosaur age
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Cretaceous
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Dinosaurs end, flowering plants
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Paleogene
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Rise of mammals including whales
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Neogene
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Diversification of mammals, global glaciations (23-1.6 m.y.)
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PHANEROZOIC ECON
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visible life
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proterozoic econ
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before life
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archean econ
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early life
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hadean econ
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primordial time
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cenozoic era
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new life
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mesozoic era
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middle life
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paleozoic era
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old life
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neoproterozoic era
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new before life
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mesoproterozoic era
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middle before life
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paleoproterozoic era
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ancient before life
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neoarchaen era
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new early time
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mesoarchean era
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middle early time
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paleoarchean era
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ancient early time
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neo
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new
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mes
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middle
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pale
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old/ancient
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