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eraAny of the major divisions of geological time that includes several periods but is part of an eon. The eras of the current Phanerozoic in chronological order are the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. We are living in the Recent epoch of the Quaternary period of the Cenozoic era. Geological time is broken up into geochronological units of which era is just one level of division. The hierarchy of geochronological divisions is eon, era, period, epoch, age, and chron. Eras are subdivisions of eons and periods are subdivisions of eras. Rocks representing an era of geological time comprise an erathem. |
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| A CONVENTION of female writers, which for two days had been stuffing Woman's couch with goose-quills and hailing the down of a new era, adjourned with unabated enthusiasm, shouting, "Place aux dames It was for the Mediterranean sailors that fair-haired sirens sang among the black rocks seething in white foam and mysterious voices spoke in the darkness above the moving wave - voices menacing, seductive, or prophetic, like that voice heard at the beginning of the Christian era by the master of an African vessel in the Gulf of Syrta, whose calm nights are full of strange murmurs and flitting shadows. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era. |
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