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Carboniferous period

a geological period that began about 370 million years ago and ended 280 million years ago. It is often divided at about 325 million BP into Lower and Upper Carboniferous; the coal measures from which the period derives its name occurred mainly in the latter period. Club mosses, horsetails and ferns were the dominant plants during the period, and amphibians the commonest vertebrates, though this was also the time of the emergence of the reptiles. Britain crossed the equator.
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According to borehole B1, which is located near the station, there is a layer of weathered slates of the Carboniferous age at the depth of 10 m below the surface (Table 1).
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His topics include time on Earth and a brief history of Scotland, lava flows and pyroclastic deposits, Paleocene fissure and shield volcanism in the Hebrides, post-Caledonian relaxation: the Lower Carboniferous volcanoes, volcanoes and the Iapetus Ocean, and descent to the Dark Ages: volcanic scenes from the Precambrian.
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