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What is the age of the Earth?

4.5 - 4.6 billion years

What is the duration of the Permian

period?

48 million years

How old are the oldest known rocks?

About 4.2 billion years old.

When did the devonian period begin?

416 million years ago.

About 4 billion years.

How long did the precambrian eon last?

During which period did the earliest insects appear?

Silurian

When did the dinosaurs become extinct?

About 65 million years

ago.

Why didn’t trilobites eat flowering plants?

Because trilobites became extinct before flowering

plants evolved.

DAILY DAILY DOUBLEDOUBLE

Why won’t you find fossils of the first mammal-like reptiles

in NYS?

Because there is no Permian rock in NYS.

During which epoch did amphibians become abundant?

Late Mississippian

What caused the Alleghanian orogeny?

The collision of North America and Africa

During what period was the Adirondack region of New

York State uplifted?

Cretaceous

During which era did North America completely separate

from Africa

Mesozoic

When did the first evidence of biological carbon appear?

About 3.7 billion years ago

During which epoch did the last period of glaciation occur?

Pleistocene

About how old (in years) is the bedrock found at Oswego, NY?

Between 488 and 444 million years old

What are 2 characteristics of an index fossil?

Wide distribution and on earth for a brief time.

What does the presence of an unconformity always mean?

Part of the geologic rock record is missing.

Diring which period of Earth history did the first coral reefs

form?

Ordovician

To which city in NYS would you go to find fossils if the

earliest insects?

Syracuse or Niagara Falls

Which term describes a landscape with high elevation

and horizontal bedrock structure?

Plateau

Which kind of landscape is characterized by high

elevations, steep slopes and tilted bedrock?

Mountains

The Catskills are part of which landscape region?

The Allegheny Plateau

What name is given to a landscape region with low elevation and horizontal

bedrock structure?

Lowlands or Plains

What is the range of age of the bedrock of the Erie Ontario

Lowlands?

488 to 416 million years old

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Official Stuff

What is the name of the official NYS fossil ?

The Eurypterus