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    The document summarizes three periods of geologic time: 1) The Ordovician period lasted from 485.4 million to 443.8 million years ago. It was named after an ancient Celtic tribe and helped resolve a dispute about classifying rock beds in Wales. 2) The Cretaceous period lasted from 145-66 million years ago. It derives its name from the Latin word for chalk due to the abundant chalk deposits from this period. Chalk is composed of the plates of tiny algae. 3) The Carboniferous period lasted from 359.2-299 million years ago. It is named for the rich coal deposits found in this era, especially in Europe and North America

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    The document summarizes three periods of geologic time: 1) The Ordovician period lasted from 485.4 million to 443.8 million years ago. It was named after an ancient Celtic tribe and helped resolve a dispute about classifying rock beds in Wales. 2) The Cretaceous period lasted from 145-66 million years ago. It derives its name from the Latin word for chalk due to the abundant chalk deposits from this period. Chalk is composed of the plates of tiny algae. 3) The Carboniferous period lasted from 359.2-299 million years ago. It is named for the rich coal deposits found in this era, especially in Europe and North America

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    The document summarizes three periods of geologic time: 1) The Ordovician period lasted from 485.4 million to 443.8 million years ago. It was named after an ancient Celtic tribe and helped resolve a dispute about classifying rock beds in Wales. 2) The Cretaceous period lasted from 145-66 million years ago. It derives its name from the Latin word for chalk due to the abundant chalk deposits from this period. Chalk is composed of the plates of tiny algae. 3) The Carboniferous period lasted from 359.2-299 million years ago. It is named for the rich coal deposits found in this era, especially in Europe and North America

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    NADELA, GAUS ELLEO D.

    BIO MED IIA

    The Ordovician period. The second of six


    periods of the Paleozoic Era. The Ordovician spans
    41.2 million years from the end of the Cambrian
    Period 485.4 million years ago (Mya) to the start of
    the Silurian Period 443.8 Mya.
    The Ordovician, named after the Celtic tribe
    of the Ordovices, Celtic tribes living in Great Britain before the Roman invasion. Their tribal lands were
    located in present-day North Wales and England between the Silures to the south and the Deceangli to the
    north-east. The term Ordovician was defined by Charles Lapworth in 1879 to resolve a dispute between
    followers of Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison, who were placing the same rock beds in northern
    Wales into the Cambrian and Silurian systems, respectively. Lapworth recognized that the fossil fauna in
    the disputed strata were different from those of either the Cambrian or the Silurian systems, and placed
    them in a system of their own. The Ordovician received international approval in 1960 (forty years after
    Lapworth's death), when it was adopted as an official period of the Paleozoic Era by the International
    Geological Congress.

    Cretaceous Period, in geologic


    time, the last of the three periods of the
    Mesozoic Era. The Cretaceous began 145.0
    million years ago and ended 66 million years
    ago; it followed the Jurassic Period and was
    succeeded by the Paleogene Period (the first
    of the two periods into which the Tertiary
    Period was divided). The Cretaceous is the
    longest period of the Phanerozoic Eon.
    Spanning 79 million years, it represents
    more time than has elapsed since the
    extinction of the dinosaurs, which occurred
    at the end of the period.
    The name Cretaceous is derived from creta, Latin for “chalk,” and was first proposed by
    J.B.J. Omalius d’Halloy in 1822. D’Halloy had been commissioned to make a geologic map of France,
    and part of his task was to decide upon the geologic units to be represented by it. One of his units, the
    Terrain Crétacé, included chalks and underlying sands. Chalk is a soft, fine-grained type of limestone
    composed predominantly of the armourlike plates of coccolithophores, tiny floating algae that flourished
    during the Late Cretaceous. Most Cretaceous rocks are not chalks, but most chalks were deposited during
    the Cretaceous. Many of these rocks provide clear and easily accessed details of the period because they
    have not been deformed or eroded and are relatively close to the surface—as can be seen in the white
    cliffs bordering the Strait of Dover between France and England.
    NADELA, GAUS ELLEO D.
    BIO MED IIA

    The Carboniferous Period lasted from


    about 359.2 to 299 million years ago* during the late
    Paleozoic Era. The term "Carboniferous" comes from
    England, in reference to the rich deposits of coal that
    occur there. These deposits of coal occur throughout
    northern Europe, Asia, and midwestern and eastern
    North America. The term "Carboniferous" is used
    throughout the world to describe this period, The
    name Carboniferous means "coal-bearing",
    although in the United States it has been separated
    into the Mississippian (early Carboniferous) and the
    Pennsylvanian (late Carboniferous) Subsystems. This
    division was established to distinguish the coal-
    bearing layers of the Pennsylvanian from the mostly
    limestone Mississippian, and is a result of differing
    stratigraphy on the different continents.

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