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- Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...another). [[Earthquake]]s, [[volcano|volcanic activity]], [[mountain]]-building, and [[oceanic trench]...
8: ...should not be confused with the ''chemical'' subdivision of the Earth into (from innermost to outermos...
24: ...logic fault|strike slip]] faults can cause highly visible surface effects. Because of [[friction]], t...
26: ...ve to each other such that the Pacific plate is moving [[north]] with respect to North America.
31: ...eatures] perpendicular to the ridge axis. If one views the sea floor between the fracture zones as co... - Indo-Australian Plate (2019 bytes)
3: ... all fragments of the ancient supercontinent of [[Gondwana]]. [[Seafloor spreading]] separated these land ma...
7: ...he [[Antarctic Plate]]. The westerly side is subdivided with the [[Indian Plate]] that forms a boundar... - Supercontinent (3497 bytes)
5: ...[[Pangaea]] and its successors [[Laurasia]] and [[Gondwana]].
7: ... and southern supercontinents, [[Laurasia]] and [[Gondwana]].
20: * [[Gondwana]] - Cretaceous (7391 bytes)
1: The '''Cretaceous''' period is one of the major divisions of the [[geologic timescale]], reaching from...
8: ==Divisions==
10: ...ceous|Lower]] and [[Upper Cretaceous|Upper]] subdivisions. The [[faunal stage]]s from youngest to olde...
45: | [[Hauterivian]]
57: ...Interior Seaway]]) and then started to recede, leaving thick marine deposits sandwiched between [[coal... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
3: Current geologic [[Radiometric dating|evidence]] holds that the [[age of the Earth]] is abo...
7: ... Eons are divided into Eras, which are in turn divided into Periods, Epochs and Stages. At the same ...
9: ...d to as the [[Waucoban]] series that is then subdivided into zones based on [[trilobita|trilobites]]. ...
15: ...championed by [[Abraham Werner]], among others) divided the rocks of the Earth's crust into four types...
17: ...n the early 19th century, enabled geologists to divide Earth history more finely and precisely. It al... - Rainforest (6551 bytes)
4: Rain forests are home to two-thirds of all the living animal and plant species on the planet. It has ...
6: ...severely leached, have developed on the ancient [[Gondwana]]n [[shield (geography)|shields]]. Rapid bacteria...
8: ...th is soon colonised by a dense tangled growth of vines, shrubs and small trees called ''jungle''.
16: ... are common among trees of the C layer. Young individuals of trees destined for the B and A layers may...
32: ...s and scientists, e.g. [http://www.cfact.org/site/view_article.asp?idCategory=5&idarticle=274], who sa... - Golden mole (4520 bytes)
10: {{Taxobox section subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Genera}}
15: ...o much so that, the [[marsupial]]/[[placental]] divide notwithstanding, they were once thought to be r...
21: Like most of the mammals that originated in [[Gondwana]], golden moles used to be regarded as rather 'pr...
34: *** Rough-haired Golden Mole, ''Chrysospalax villosus''
36: *** Visagie?s Golden Mole, ''Chrysochloris visagiei'' - Pangaea (1625 bytes)
10: ...odinia]] had formed approximately 1,100 MYA and divided 750 MYA.
12: ... Pangaea broke into two parts: a southern part, [[Gondwana]], and a northern part, [[Laurasia]]. - Spermatophyte (2424 bytes)
3: Seed-bearing plants were traditionally divided into [[angiosperm]]s, or flowering plants, and...
6: *Division '''Spermatophyta'''
13: ...] in the ancient southern [[supercontinent]] of [[Gondwana]] during the [[Permian]] period. By the [[Triassi...
17: ...separate divisions (sometimes under the '''Superdivision Spermatophyta'''): - Mesozoic (1564 bytes)
1: ...] of [[Phanerozoic]] [[eon (geology)|eon]]. The division of time into Eras dates back to the [[19th ce...
8: ...en split into [[North America]] and [[Eurasia]]. Gondwana broke up progressively into four continents: [[So... - Cenozoic (1685 bytes)
3: ...ene]] which is ongoing. Previously Cenozoic was divided into periods (or sub-eras) named as [[Tertiary...
7: ... positions. [[Australia-New Guinea]] split from [[Gondwana]] to drift north and, eventually, abut [[South-ea... - Carboniferous (4655 bytes)
1: The '''Carboniferous''' is a major division of the [[geologic timescale]] that extends fr...
5: ==Subdivisions==
7: ...erous is usually broken into Lower and Upper subdivisions. The [[faunal stage|Faunal stages]] from you...
10: *Noginskian/Virgilian
12: ===Kasimovian=== - Golden moles (3220 bytes)
10: {{Taxobox section subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Genera}}
15: ...o much so that, the [[marsupial]]/[[placental]] divide notwithstanding, they were once thought to be r...
21: Like most of the mammals that originated in [[Gondwana]], golden moles used to be regarded as rather 'pr... - Jurassic (4659 bytes)
7: == Divisions ==
9: ...Jurassic|Upper]] (or Early, Middle and Late) subdivisions, also known as ''Lias'', ''Dogger'' and ''Ma...
27: | [[Callovian]]
57: ... started to break up. Climates were warm with no evidence of [[glacier|glaciation]]. As in the Triass...
61: During the Jurassic, the "highest" life forms living in the seas were [[fish]] and marine [[reptile]... - Tetrapod (26290 bytes)
11: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Groups}}
28: ..., "four-legged") is a [[vertebrate]] [[animal]] having four [[foot|feet]], [[leg]]s or leglike appenda...
35: ...ee]] can plausibly be traced to early tetrapods living in shallow water.
39: ...d [[Greenland]]. The only exception is a single [[Gondwana]]n genus, ''[[Metaxygnathus]]'', which has been f...
52: ...nimal to live in a [[gravity]]-neutral, aqueous environment and then invade one that is entirely diffe...
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