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Phanerozoic

The last period of the Mesozoic, the longest period of the Phanerozoic, and the setting for the asteroid strike that ended the non-avian dinosaurs and closed the era. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Rank
Period 1
Start (Million Years Ago)
143.1 1
Cited article gives 143.1 plus or minus 0.6 Mya.
End (Million Years Ago)
66 1
Key Event
The Chicxulub impact and the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, ending the period and the Mesozoic era together. 1
Defining Event
Mass Extinction 2
Cretaceous
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Source Arch of Cabo San Lucas (Wikipedia)
Source Ausangate (Wikipedia)
Source Baruungoyot Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Brandberg Mountain, Wikipedia
Source Wikipedia: Bryce Canyon National Park, Wikipedia
Source Chilton Chine (Wikipedia)
Source Danxia landform (Wikipedia)
Source Ciudad Encantada (Wikipedia)
Source Crato Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event (Wikipedia)
Source Dakota Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Danxia landform (Wikipedia)
Source De Geer Land Bridge (Wikipedia)
Source Deccan Traps (Wikipedia)
Source Dinosaur Park Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Djadochta Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Elrhaz Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Exhumed river channel (Wikipedia)
Source Hell Creek Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Indus-Yarlung suture zone (Wikipedia)
Source Jiufotang Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Judith River Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Kem Kem Group (Wikipedia)
Source Kimmeridge Clay (Wikipedia)
Source Kinmen (Wikipedia)
Source Matsu Islands (Wikipedia)
Source Mont Mégantic (Wikipedia)
Source Mount Cameroon (Wikipedia)
Source Mount Conner (Wikipedia)
Source Nemegt Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Niobrara Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Pedra da Gávea (Wikipedia)
Source Pierre Shale (Wikipedia)
Source Purbeck Group (Wikipedia)
Source Pyrenees (Wikipedia)
Source Rügen (Wikipedia)
Source Santana Group (Wikipedia)
Source Sentinel Dome (Wikipedia)
Source Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Wikipedia)
Source Sierra Nevada del Cocuy (Wikipedia)
Source Speeton Clay Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Split Apple Rock (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Stawamus Chief, Wikipedia
Source Tendaguru Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Two Medicine Formation (Wikipedia)
Source Verdon Gorge (Wikipedia)
Source Wave Rock (Wikipedia)
Source Wealden Group (Wikipedia)
Source Wessex Formation (Wikipedia)

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Caused By

The impact is the primary accepted cause of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction that ends this period.

Source Chicxulub Crater (Wikipedia)

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Source Geologic Time Scale (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Geologic Time Scale (Wikipedia)
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2. Cretaceous (Wikipedia)
Lead paragraph
Quote, Lead paragraph
The Cretaceous (along with the Mesozoic) ended with the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, a large mass extinction in which many groups, including non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and large marine reptiles, died out; it is widely thought to have been caused by the impact of a large asteroid that formed the Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia: White Cliffs of Dover - Wikipedia
  • Associated With: White Cliffs of Dover, Lead section
    deposited during the Late Cretaceous
  • Associated With: White Cliffs of Dover, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The cliff face, which reaches a height of 350 feet (110 m), owes its striking appearance to its composition of chalk accented by streaks of black flint, deposited during the Late Cretaceous.
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Hell Creek Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Hell Creek Formation, Lead paragraph
    It is a series of fresh and brackish-water clays, mudstones, and sandstones deposited during the Maastrichtian and Danian (respectively, the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Paleogene) by fluvial activity in fluctuating river channels and deltas and very occasional peaty swamp deposits along the low-lying eastern continental margin fronting the late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway.
  • Associated With: Hell Creek Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Hell Creek Formation is an intensively studied division of mostly Upper Cretaceous and some lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana.
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Kimmeridge Clay (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Kimmeridge Clay, Lead paragraph
    The Kimmeridge Clay is a sedimentary deposit of fossiliferous marine clay which is of Late Jurassic to lowermost Cretaceous age and occurs in southern and eastern England and in the North Sea.
  • Associated With: Kimmeridge Clay, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Kimmeridge Clay is a sedimentary deposit of fossiliferous marine clay which is of Late Jurassic to lowermost Cretaceous age and occurs in southern and eastern England and in the North Sea.
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Dinosaur Park Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Dinosaur Park Formation, Lead paragraph
    It was deposited during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, between about 76.5 and 74.4 million years ago.
  • Associated With: Dinosaur Park Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    It was deposited during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, between about 76.5 and 74.4 million years ago.
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Two Medicine Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Two Medicine Formation, Lead paragraph
    The Two Medicine Formation is a geological formation, or rock body, in northwestern Montana and southern Alberta that was deposited between 82.4 Ma and 74.4 Ma, during Campanian (Late Cretaceous) time.
  • Associated With: Two Medicine Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Two Medicine Formation is a geological formation, or rock body, in northwestern Montana and southern Alberta that was deposited between 82.4 Ma and 74.4 Ma, during Campanian (Late Cretaceous) time.
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Wealden Group (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Wealden Group, Lead paragraph
    The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental (freshwater) facies sedimentary rocks of Berriasian to Aptian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous.
  • Associated With: Wealden Group, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental (freshwater) facies sedimentary rocks of Berriasian to Aptian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous.
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Split Apple Rock (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Split Apple Rock, Lead paragraph
Quote, Associated With: Split Apple Rock, Lead paragraph
Made of granite from the cretaceous, it is in the shape of an apple which has been cut in half.
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Niobrara Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Niobrara Formation, Lead paragraph
    The Niobrara Formation , also called the Niobrara Chalk, is a geologic formation in North America that was deposited between 87 and 82 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian, and Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous.
  • Associated With: Niobrara Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Niobrara Formation , also called the Niobrara Chalk, is a geologic formation in North America that was deposited between 87 and 82 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian, and Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous.
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Djadochta Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Djadochta Formation, Lead paragraph
    The Djadochta Formation (sometimes transcribed and also known as Djadokhta, Djadokata, or Dzhadokhtskaya) is a highly fossiliferous geological formation in Central Asia, Gobi Desert, dating from the Late Cretaceous period, during the Campanian to the Maastrichtian.
  • Associated With: Djadochta Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Djadochta Formation (sometimes transcribed and also known as Djadokhta, Djadokata, or Dzhadokhtskaya) is a highly fossiliferous geological formation in Central Asia, Gobi Desert, dating from the Late Cretaceous period, during the Campanian to the Maastrichtian.
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Nemegt Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Nemegt Formation, Lead paragraph
    The Nemegt Formation (also known as Nemegtskaya Svita) is a geological formation in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, dating to the Late Cretaceous.
  • Associated With: Nemegt Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Nemegt Formation (also known as Nemegtskaya Svita) is a geological formation in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, dating to the Late Cretaceous.
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Kem Kem Group (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Kem Kem Group, Lead paragraph
    The Kem Kem Group (commonly known as the Kem Kem beds) is a geological group in the Kem Kem region of eastern Morocco, whose strata date back to the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.
  • Associated With: Kem Kem Group, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Kem Kem Group (commonly known as the Kem Kem beds) is a geological group in the Kem Kem region of eastern Morocco, whose strata date back to the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.
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Baruungoyot Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Baruungoyot Formation, Lead paragraph
    The Baruungoyot Formation (also known as Barun Goyot) is a geological formation dating to the Late Cretaceous Period.
  • Associated With: Baruungoyot Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Baruungoyot Formation (also known as Barun Goyot) is a geological formation dating to the Late Cretaceous Period.
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Tendaguru Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Tendaguru Formation, Lead paragraph
    The formation ranges in age from the late Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, Oxfordian to Hauterivian stages, with the base of the formation possibly extending into the Callovian.
  • Associated With: Tendaguru Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The formation ranges in age from the late Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, Oxfordian to Hauterivian stages, with the base of the formation possibly extending into the Callovian.
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Wessex Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Wessex Formation, Lead paragraph
    The Wessex Formation is a fossil-rich English geological formation that dates from the Berriasian to Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous.
  • Associated With: Wessex Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Wessex Formation is a fossil-rich English geological formation that dates from the Berriasian to Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous.
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Crato Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Crato Formation, Lead paragraph
    The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous (Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin.
  • Associated With: Crato Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous (Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin.
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Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Lead paragraph
    It is of Late Cretaceous age, Campanian to early Maastrichtian stage (Edmontonian Land-Mammal Age), and is composed of mudstone, sandstone, carbonaceous shales, and coal seams.
  • Associated With: Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    It is of Late Cretaceous age, Campanian to early Maastrichtian stage (Edmontonian Land-Mammal Age), and is composed of mudstone, sandstone, carbonaceous shales, and coal seams.
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Judith River Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Judith River Formation, Lead paragraph
    It dates to the Late Cretaceous, between 79 and 75.3 million years ago, corresponding to the "Judithian" land vertebrate age.
  • Associated With: Judith River Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    It dates to the Late Cretaceous, between 79 and 75.3 million years ago, corresponding to the "Judithian" land vertebrate age.
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Pierre Shale (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Pierre Shale, Lead paragraph
    Most of the formation was deposited in the Campanian Age of the late Cretaceous.
  • Associated With: Pierre Shale, Lead, age Cretaceous
    The Pierre Shale is a geologic formation or series in the Upper Cretaceous which occurs east of the Rocky Mountains in the Great Plains, from Pembina Valley in Canada to New Mexico.
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Danxia landform (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Danxia Landform, Lead paragraph
    Danxia landform is formed from red-coloured sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age.
  • Associated With: China Danxia, Lead paragraph
    Danxia landform is formed from red-coloured sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age.
  • Associated With: China Danxia, Lead, age Cretaceous
    Danxia landform is formed from red-coloured sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age.
  • Associated With: Danxia Landform, Lead, age Cretaceous
    Danxia landform is formed from red-coloured sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age.
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Elrhaz Formation (Wikipedia)
  • Associated With: Elrhaz Formation, Lead paragraph
    Its strata date back to the Early Cretaceous, about 125 to 112 million years ago.
  • Associated With: Elrhaz Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
    Its strata date back to the Early Cretaceous, about 125 to 112 million years ago.
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Arch of Cabo San Lucas (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Arch of Cabo San Lucas, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Arch of Cabo San Lucas, Article text, age Cretaceous
115 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period.
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Ausangate (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Ausangate, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Ausangate, Lead, age Cretaceous
The area has four major geological features, the Andean uplift formed by Granits, the hanging glaciers and glacial erosional valleys, the Permian formation with its singular colors: red, ochre, and turquoise and the Cretaceous, limestone forests.
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Wikipedia: Brandberg Mountain, Wikipedia
Associated With: Brandberg Mountain, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Brandberg Mountain, Article text, age Cretaceous
It originated during the Early Cretaceous rifting that led to the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Wikipedia: Bryce Canyon National Park, Wikipedia
Associated With: Bryce Canyon Amphitheater, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Bryce Canyon Amphitheater, Article text, age Cretaceous
The Bryce Canyon area experienced soil deposition that spans from the last part of the Cretaceous period and the first half of the Cenozoic era.
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Chilton Chine (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Chilton Chine, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Chilton Chine, Lead, age Cretaceous
It is a small coastal gully, one of many of such chines on the island created by stream erosion of soft Cretaceous rocks.
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Ciudad Encantada (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Ciudad Encantada, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Ciudad Encantada, Article text, age Cretaceous
The rock formations of Ciudad Encantada are karst formations made of limestone and dolomite, which date back to the Cretaceous period, approximately 90 million years ago.
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De Geer Land Bridge (Wikipedia)
Associated With: De Geer Land Bridge, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: De Geer Land Bridge, Lead, age Cretaceous
The land bridge provided a northern route from Europe to North America from the Late Cretaceous to the Early Paleocene, although this timeframe has been disputed.
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Deccan Traps (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Deccan Traps, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Deccan Traps, Lead, age Cretaceous
The eruptions occurred over a 600,000-to-800,000-year time period between around 66.3 to 65.6 million years ago, spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
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Exhumed river channel (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Exhumed river channel, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Exhumed river channel, Lead, age Cretaceous
Some of the best examples of exhumed river channels occur in the Ruby Ranch Member of the Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation southwest of Green River, Utah.
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Indus-Yarlung suture zone (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Indus-Yarlung Suture Zone, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Indus-Yarlung Suture Zone, Lead, age Cretaceous
More recently it has been suggested that these ophiolites formed during Early Cretaceous subduction initiation (Hu and Stern, 2020).
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Jiufotang Formation (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Jiufotang Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Jiufotang Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
The Jiufotang Formation (Chinese: 九佛堂组; pinyin: jiǔfótáng zǔ; previously transliterated as Chiufotang Formation) is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms (see Jehol Biota).
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Kinmen (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Kinmen, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Kinmen, Article text, age Cretaceous
Kinmen, much like the surrounding Chinese mainland, is predominantly composed of Cretaceous aged granite, with lesser amounts of Eocene-Oligocene sandstone, Miocene basalt and Pleistocene-Holocene conglomerate.
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Matsu Islands (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Matsu Islands, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Matsu Islands, Article text, age Cretaceous
The islands are predominantly composed of Jurassic and Cretaceous intrusive (emplaced ≈160 Ma, ≈130 Ma and ≈94 Ma) granite and diabase.
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Mount Cameroon (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Mount Cameroon, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Mount Cameroon, Article text, age Cretaceous
It sits on a horst of Precambrian granite and gneiss overlain by Cretaceous to Quaternary sediments.
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Mount Conner (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Mount Conner, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Mount Conner, Article text, age Cretaceous
The summit of Mount Conner, along with the summits of low domes in the Kata Tjuta complex and summit levels of Uluru, is an erosional remnant of a Cretaceous geomorphic surface.
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Pedra da Gávea (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Pedra da Gavea, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Pedra da Gavea, Article text, age Cretaceous
The mountain, much like other stone outcroppings in and around the area, is the result of younger Neoproterozoic granitoid rocks and thin Cretaceous diabase dikes intruding the older Meso-Neoproterozoic high-grade metasedimentary rocks.
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Purbeck Group (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Purbeck Group, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Purbeck Group, Lead, age Cretaceous
The Purbeck Group is an Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in south-east England.
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Pyrenees (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Pyrenees, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Pyrenees, Article text, age Cretaceous
Between 100 and 150 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous Period, the Bay of Biscay fanned out, pushing present-day Spain against France and applying intense compressional pressure to large layers of sedimentary rock.
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Rügen (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Rügen, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Rügen, Article text, age Cretaceous
The chalk cliffs of the Jasmund peninsula belong to the Rügen Chalk unit and were formed during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, around 70 million years ago.
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Santana Group (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Santana Group, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Santana Group, Lead, age Cretaceous
The group comprises the Crato, Ipubi and Romualdo Formations and is dated to the Aptian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous.
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Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Article text, age Cretaceous
It is composed of Cretaceous metamorphic rocks (predominantly schists and gneisses) and quartzdioritic intrusives of Tertiary age.
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Sierra Nevada del Cocuy (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Article text, age Cretaceous
In general, the geology of the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy consists on sedimentary rocks from the Cretaceous, broadly made up of sequences of quartzites, sandstones and fine-grained mudstones of Aptian and Cenomanian ages.
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Speeton Clay Formation (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Speeton Clay, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Speeton Clay, Lead, age Cretaceous
The Speeton Clay Formation (SpC) is a Lower Cretaceous geological formation in Yorkshire, northern England.
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Wikipedia: Stawamus Chief, Wikipedia
Associated With: Stawamus Chief, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Stawamus Chief, Article text, age Cretaceous
The Chief is part of a medium-sized pluton of a granitic rock (granodiorite) that was initially formed in the early Cretaceous (approximately 100 million years ago) by the slow cooling and solidification of molten magma deep below the surface of the Earth.
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Verdon Gorge (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Verdon Gorge, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Verdon Gorge, Article text, age Cretaceous
Several million years later, with the arrival of the Jurassic period, the area was covered by a warm shallow sea, which allowed the growth of various corals. The Cretaceous period saw what is now Basse Provence being raised and the sea reaching the current location of the Alps, which were themselves erected during the tertiary era.
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Wave Rock (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Wave Rock, Article text, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Wave Rock, Article text, age Cretaceous
The initial step in the development of Hyden Rock was the subsurface alteration by weathering of granite bedrock beneath a lateritised land surface during the Cretaceous Period between 100 and 130 million years ago.
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Yixian Formation (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Yixian Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
Quote, Associated With: Yixian Formation, Lead, age Cretaceous
The Yixian Formation (simplified Chinese: 义县组; traditional Chinese: 義縣組; pinyin: Yìxiàn zǔ; formerly transcribed as Yihsien Formation or Yixiang Formation) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous.
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Sentinel Dome (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Sentinel Dome, Infobox: age
Quote, Associated With: Sentinel Dome, Infobox: age
Cretaceous
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Mont Mégantic (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Mont Megantic, Infobox: age
Quote, Associated With: Mont Megantic, Infobox: age
Early Cretaceous
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Dakota Formation (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Dakota Sandstone, Infobox: period
Quote, Associated With: Dakota Sandstone, Infobox: period
Cretaceous
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