Neoproterozoic love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or being the most recent of the three eras of the Proterozoic Eon, from approximately 1.0 billion to 542 million years ago, marked by the formation of extensive glaciers reaching as far south as the equator and the first appearance of multicellular life.
  • noun The Neoproterozoic Era.

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  • adjective geology Of a geologic era within the Proterozoic eon; comprises the Tonian, Cryogenian and Ediacaran periods from about 1000 to 544 million years ago, when algae and sponges flourished.
  • proper noun geology The Neoproterozoic era.

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  • Babb is currently a freshman in Watershed Sciences at Utah State University, where she is researching paleoclimate indicators and paleocurrents in the Neoproterozoic Era, so I'm working with about 1-billion-year-old rocks, trying to determine what was happening on Earth at that time.

    Interview with 2006 Intel ISEF winner Shannon Babb Peggy 2007

  • Neoproterozoic carbonate carbon isotope curve from Condon et al.

    No Longer Sleeping in Seattle - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • Topics include: global climate change and biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction; evidence of warming during the Neoproterozoic; new insights into structure and dynamics of the San Andreas fault; origin of some of Earth's largest natural crystals; and discovery of Martian rock layers that illuminate the planet's hydrological history.

    March 28th, 2007 2007

  • For example, the Neoproterozoic interval, the gap of unknown duration between the time when animals first supposedly evolved and the oldest known fossil or geochemical evidence of animals latest Neoproterozoic, about 600-650 million years ago has not been satisfactorily addressed although Neuweiler and others attempted to.

    [evolution] of the unprincipled and the naïve 2009

  • For example, the Neoproterozoic interval, the gap of unknown duration between the time when animals first supposedly evolved and the oldest known fossil or geochemical evidence of animals latest Neoproterozoic, about 600-650 million years ago has not been satisfactorily addressed although Neuweiler and others attempted to.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Babb is currently a freshman in Watershed Sciences at Utah State University, where she is researching paleoclimate indicators and paleocurrents in the Neoproterozoic Era, so I'm working with about 1-billion-year-old rocks, trying to determine what was happening on Earth at that time.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007

  • Topics include: paleoseismology of Yucca Mountain, Nevada; impact of magnetic anomalies in Earth's oceanic crust on plate tectonics; evidence of episodic regional and possibly global glaciation during the Neoproterozoic; insights into Paleocene-Eocene global warming; impact of subduction on Earth's surface characteristics; records of environmental change in Black Coral specimens; and geology's place in the Scientific Revolution.

    I care not who makes a country's laws, so long as I can get out an injunction. 2006

  • The Snowball Earth hypothesis explains the development of glaciation at low latitudes in the Neoproterozoic, as well as the associated iron formations and cap carbonates, in terms of a runaway ice-albedo feedback leading to a global glaciation followed by an extreme greenhouse climate.

    RMS and Sulphate Emissions « Climate Audit 2007

  • Trace fossils that suggest grazing with a radula (Radulichnus) (Erwin & Davidson 2002; Seilacher 1999, 2003), together with large imprints of possible molluscs lacking a mineralized shell (Kimberella) from the latest Neoproterozoic (Erwin & Davidson 2002; Fedonkin & Waggoner 1997; Seilacher 1999, 2003), imply that macroscopic molluscs have a deeper evolutionary history.

    Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Cerrado Verde is a 100% owned project of the Company and is defined by flat lying potash rich metasiltstones belonging to the Serra da Saudade Formation of Neoproterozoic age.

    unknown title 2011

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