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What is an era or period?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

They are divisions of geologic time, based largely on the fossil record of organisms. Eras are longer subdivisions of time which are further subdivided into periods and epochs. For instance, we are currently in the Holocene epoch of the Quaternary Period, and the larger Cenozoic Era.

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