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... INTRODUCTION The past few years have seen the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field of earth science that addresses the impact of large-scale environmental changes on ancient life. Exemplifying this development has been the maturation of the overlapping disciplines of TABLE 1 Simplified Geologic Time Scale ..
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