Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man brought together Lyell's views on three key themes from the geology of the Quaternary Period of Earth history: glaciers, evolution, and the age of the human race.

Because of this, the study of such material is often known as Quaternary geology, after the recent Quaternary Period.

** Animals that live interstitially in the sand of the ocean floor were responsible for the fossil crawling traces that are considered the earliest evidence of animals and are detectable even prior to the dawn of the Ediacaran Period in geology.

The remaining geology was created during the Silurian-Devonian Period, about 400 million years ago, and left behind slate, with some granite, schist, and limestone.

The geology was formed during the Lower Carboniferous Period.

The geology and topography of Wold Newton are based on the massive chalk deposits of the Cretaceous Period ( 145 to 65 million years ago ) and the subsequent glaciation during the coolest period of the current Ice Age.

It is believed that at the end of the Neolithic Period ( around 4000 BC ), Achill had a population of 500 – 1, 000 people.

), Franks and Alamanni in the Merovingian Period: An Ethnographic Perspective ( Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology ), Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2003, ISBN 1-84383-035-3.

The population migrations around 1200 – 1100 BC reduced the shipping of tin around the Mediterranean ( and from Great Britain ), limiting supplies and raising prices. Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, Spring and Autumn Period ( 476BC-221BC ) As ironworking improved, iron became cheaper ; and as cultures advanced from wrought iron to forged iron, they learned how to make steel, which is stronger than bronze and holds a sharper edge longer.

* Ivan, one of the protagonists of the historical novel by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes, El hombre que amaba a los perros ( The Man Who Loved Dogs ), is the editor of a university journal of veterinary medicine, who manages to make a living during the Special Period in Cuba by helping people take care of their dogs.

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Devonian Period, about 359. 2 ± 2. 5 Ma ( million years ago ), to the beginning of the Permian Period, about 299. 0 ± 0. 8 Ma.

Since the start of the " Special Period " in 1991 ( energy shortages caused by the loss of the Soviet Union as a trading partner ), hitchhiking and carpooling have become important parts of Cuba's transportation system and society in general.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 416. 0 ± 2. 8 Mya ( million years ago ), to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 359. 2 ± 2. 5 Mya.

The first phase Migration Period displacement from between CE 300 and 500 included relocation of the Goths ( Ostrogoths and Visigoths ), Vandals, Franks, various other Germanic people ( Burgundians, Lombards, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Suebi, Alemanni, Varangians and Normans ), Alans and numerous Slavic tribes.

* Jacob, E. F. ( 1925 ), Studies in the Period of Baronial Reform and Rebellion, 1258-1267, Oxford, Clarendon Press.

The Eocene ( symbol E < sub > O </ sub >) epoch, lasting from about 56 to 34 million years ago ( to ), is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.

During the late Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period ( c. 2181 – 2055 BC ), the Egyptians gradually came to believe that possession of a ba and the possibility of a paradisiacal afterlife extended to everyone.

The Fujiwara was one of the four great families that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian Period ( 794-1185 ), and the most important of them at that time.

Gygax worked on rules for more miniatures and tabletop battle games, including Cavaliers and Roundheads ( English Civil War, with Jeff Perren ), Classic Warfare ( Ancient Period: 1500 BC to 500 AD ), and Warriors of Mars.

The earliest ( surviving ) examples of Chinese painted artwork date to the Warring States Period ( 481-221 BC ), with paintings on silk or tomb murals on rock, brick, or stone.

During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Flanders was characterised by the presence of large urban centres (...) at the beginning of the nineteenth century this region ( Flanders ), with an urbanisation degree of more than 30 per cent, remained one of the most urbanised in the world.

At the beginning of the Meiji Period ( 1868 – 1912 ), western music was introduced to Japan.

In succeeding years, he gave series of lectures on “ Ichthyology ” ( 1847 – 48 season ), “ Comparative Embryology ” ( 1848 – 49 ), “ Functions of Life in Lower Animals ” ( 1850 – 51 ), “ Natural History ” ( 1853 – 54 ), “ Methods of Study in Natural History ” ( 1861 – 62 ), “ Glaciers and the Ice Period ” ( 1864 – 65 ), “ Brazil ” ( 1866 – 67 ) and “ Deep Sea Dredging ” ( 1869 – 70 ).

Rocks from the Tournai area date from the Carboniferous Period and have been used to define the Tournaisian Age, a subdivision of the Carboniferous lasting from 359 to 345 million years ago.

The Samhan period is generally considered a subdivision of the Three Kingdoms Period.

These younger units of this geologic formation date to the early Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, 70 to 68 Ma ( million years ago ).

The Oligocene ( symbol O < sub > G </ sub >) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 34 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ).

The Pennsylvanian is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods ( or upper of two subsystems ) of the Carboniferous Period.

The current internationally used geologic timescale of the ICS gives the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian the rank of subperiods, subdivisions of the Carboniferous Period.

** Neoproterozoic: The youngest geologic era of the Proterozoic Eon, from the Cambrian Period lower boundary ( 542 Ma ) back to 1000 Ma.

The Quaternary Period is the most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the ICS.

The Silurian is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Ordovician Period, about 443. 7 ± 1. 5 million years ago ( mya ), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, about 416. 0 ± 2. 8 mya.

The park is named for Archbald Pothole, a geologic feature that formed during the Wisconsin Glacial Period, around 15, 000 years ago.

The Copernican Period in the lunar geologic timescale runs from approximately 1. 1 billion years ago to the present day.

The Nectarian Period of the lunar geologic timescale runs from 3920 million years ago to 3850 million years ago.

The Pre-Nectarian Period of the lunar geologic timescale runs from 4533 million years ago ( the time of the initial formation of the Moon ) to 3920 million years ago, when the Nectaris Basin was formed by a large impact.

It forms the second geologic period of the Neoproterozoic Era, preceded by the Tonian Period and followed by the Ediacaran.

Eventually, the sea receded and erosion wore away intervening geologic history until about 530 million years ago, during the Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic Era.

Gypsum has been dated to almost every geologic age since the Silurian Period 443. 7 ± 1. 5 Ma.

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161. 2 ± 4. 0 to 145. 5 ± 4. 0 million years ago ( Ma ), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

The United States Federal Geographic Data Committee uses a character similar to capital Є to represent the Cambrian Period in geologic history.

The term originally referred to the region underlain by a thin layer of rich, black topsoil developed atop the chalk of the Selma Group, a geologic unit dating to the Cretaceous Period.

Since various regions of the world have their own local divisions of geologic time below the Period level, the following list provides correlations between those regional stages ( or epochs in some cases ) and the internationally-recognized Hirnantian stage.