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Page 61
... Late Carbonifer- ous age ( the Late Carboniferous Epoch began 320,000,000 years ago and lasted 34,000,000 years ) . Fusulina , an excellent index fossil for Late Carboniferous rocks , enables widely sep- arated rocks to be correlated ...
... Late Carbonifer- ous age ( the Late Carboniferous Epoch began 320,000,000 years ago and lasted 34,000,000 years ) . Fusulina , an excellent index fossil for Late Carboniferous rocks , enables widely sep- arated rocks to be correlated ...
Page 306
... Late Paleozoic Era ( ended about 245 mil- lion years ago ) . Long considered a fern after its discovery in 1824 , it was later assigned to the gymnosperms . It is regarded by some authori- ties as being close to the ancestral angiosperm ...
... Late Paleozoic Era ( ended about 245 mil- lion years ago ) . Long considered a fern after its discovery in 1824 , it was later assigned to the gymnosperms . It is regarded by some authori- ties as being close to the ancestral angiosperm ...
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... late 12th or early 13th century , when the Islamic conquest of the northern parts of the subcontinent brought special em- phasis to Arabic and Iranian musical practices , which merged with ancient Hindu traditions . The latter ...
... late 12th or early 13th century , when the Islamic conquest of the northern parts of the subcontinent brought special em- phasis to Arabic and Iranian musical practices , which merged with ancient Hindu traditions . The latter ...
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