- (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} entangledbank) wrote,@ 2004-05-21 23:09:00 |
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Ediacaran, Swazian, Dongganglingian, Clarkforkian
Pleased with the news that Ediacaran has been adopted as the name of a new geological period (c. 600-540 Ma, from Snowball Earth to the Cambrian Explosion). Something to add to our traditional sing-song list: Ediacaran, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian...
I like knowing such things. I like knowing that ununnilium has been given the official name darmstadtium (Ds).
Then I looked up the new name and found so many subperiods and strata, here for example: so many adjectives, so many: Kinderhookian and Idwian and Festiniogian and Mohawkian and Erqiaoan and Arikareean and Hemingfordian and Thanetian and Sakmarian and Melekesskian and Nectarian...
Pleased with the news that Ediacaran has been adopted as the name of a new geological period (c. 600-540 Ma, from Snowball Earth to the Cambrian Explosion). Something to add to our traditional sing-song list: Ediacaran, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian...
I like knowing such things. I like knowing that ununnilium has been given the official name darmstadtium (Ds).
Then I looked up the new name and found so many subperiods and strata, here for example: so many adjectives, so many: Kinderhookian and Idwian and Festiniogian and Mohawkian and Erqiaoan and Arikareean and Hemingfordian and Thanetian and Sakmarian and Melekesskian and Nectarian...
