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EARLY PALEOZOIC [2 records]

Record 1 2006-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology
CONT

The country rocks are carbonates and argillaceous sediments of the early and middle Palaeozoic overlain by Carboniferous rocks with coals, Permian and Triassic basic volcanic sequence.

CONT

... these processes have been active since the early Paleozoic ([about] 600 million years).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie
CONT

[...] dans le passé, ont pu régner d'autres conditions sans équivalent dans la nature actuelle, notamment au Précambrien et au début du Paléozoïque, alors que les plantes et les bêtes étaient confinées dans les eaux, et que les terres émergées étaient encore désertes et inviolées.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie

Spanish

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