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    consists of the Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs. The end of the Paleocene (56 Mya) was marked by the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, one of the...
    23 KB (2,374 words) - 17:57, 17 April 2024
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    Geology of the Alps (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from September 2009)
    plate. They stayed at around 70 km (45 mi) below the surface during the Eocene, reaching the eclogite facies and becoming intruded by migmatites. This...
    29 KB (3,650 words) - 15:24, 5 March 2024
  • have lived 300,000 years ago in China. Whale Perucetus colossus of the Eocene is shown to potentially be Earth's heaviest-ever animal with 85–340 t. 3...
    489 KB (44,436 words) - 00:35, 7 April 2024
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    on May 18, 1980. The rocks of the Portland area range in age from late Eocene to more recent eras. Multiple shallow, active fault lines traverse the Portland...
    204 KB (18,757 words) - 02:08, 19 April 2024
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    article needs attention from an expert in Palaeontology. See the talk page for details. WikiProject Palaeontology may be able to help recruit an expert. (March...
    198 KB (19,396 words) - 03:06, 25 April 2024
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    Saipan (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from April 2022)
    interpreted to be a remnant of a stratified composite volcanic cone whose Eocene center was not far north of the present peak. Saipan has some additional...
    75 KB (8,114 words) - 01:33, 21 April 2024
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    Urfa (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from April 2024)
     5–7  This limestone, known as Urfa limestone, was mostly deposited in Eocene through Miocene times (about 56-5 million years ago).: 8  It has a light...
    154 KB (17,672 words) - 20:17, 16 April 2024
  • tropical temperatures during warm, ice-free periods of the Cretaceous and Eocene, and the lower temperatures that proxies suggest were present. Irresistible...
    56 KB (7,840 words) - 15:39, 22 April 2024
  • keeleyorum (Braconidae, Ichneutinae s. l.): a new genus and species of Eocene wasp from the Green River Formation of western North America". Journal of...
    415 KB (16,437 words) - 11:51, 22 April 2024
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    and primarily localized over the Senanque Abbey, soils dating from the Eocene / Oligocene, composed of limestone, sand, and clay. Geology in the south...
    22 KB (2,388 words) - 00:58, 25 February 2024
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    known snake. Eritherium, the earliest known proboscid. Lemurs. Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Gastornis. Many modern bird groups appear. Earliest whale...
    237 KB (6,432 words) - 08:15, 16 April 2024
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    some exquisitely preserved specimens have been discovered in the middle Eocene Princeton Chert of British Columbia. These ectomycorrhizal fossils show...
    92 KB (9,669 words) - 16:14, 23 February 2024
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    Eocene rocks that are volcanic in origin. The well-known Nishabur turquoise comes from the weathered and broken trachytes and andesites of the Eocene...
    90 KB (8,310 words) - 16:20, 13 April 2024
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    eastern side of Cap Corse, ophiolite deposited in eastern Corsica during the Eocene period. Note the presence of copper ore in Cardo which was once the subject...
    63 KB (7,017 words) - 20:45, 31 March 2024