GEOLOGY
PHYSICAL GEOLOGY
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Jurassic
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Paleozoic
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Mesozoic
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Cenozoic
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Triassic
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cenozoic (66 million years ago until today) means ‘recent life. ‘ During this era, plants and animals look most like those on Earth today.
Detailed explanation-2: -From the extinction of the dinosaurs until today, the Cenozoic Era is the age of mammals. Mass extinctions create opportunities for new life to thrive, and mammals filled the gap that dinosaurs left behind. They evolved into many species you would recognize today-including humans!
Detailed explanation-3: -Officially, the current epoch is called the Holocene, which began 11, 700 years ago after the last major ice age.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Cenozoic (/ˌsiːnəˈzoʊ.ɪk, ˌsɛn-/ SEE-nə-ZOH-ik, SEN-ə-; lit. ‘new life’) is Earth’s current geological era, representing the last 66 million years of Earth’s history.
Detailed explanation-5: -Officially, we live in the Meghalayan age (which began 4, 200 years ago) of the Holocene epoch. The Holocene falls in the Quaternary period (2.6m years ago) of the Cenozoic era (66m) in the Phanerozoic eon (541m).