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EOCENE

BY ETHAN COLLINS MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO
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EOCENE

  • Age of Birds, because of the large mammals and birds that dominated, such as Entelodont, Paraceratherium, Gastornis and Basilosaurus.
  • The Cenozoic is also known as the Age of Mammals and the Age of Birds, because of the large mammals and birds
  • Other than this, little is known about the earliest prehistory of South Carolina because the Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, and Jurassic, are missing from the state's local rock record. The earliest fossils of South Carolina date back to the Cretaceous, when the state was partially covered by seawater
Why were their so many?
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SOUTH CAROLINA

  • Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils have been found at several Donoho Creek Formation sites in northeastern South Carolina
  • The Tertiary period was a time of rising and falling local temperatures.
  • More terrestrial inhabitants of Tertiary South Carolina included sizable crocodilians

LANDMASS OF SC

  • South Carolina, Sassafras Mountain, rises on a crest in this region to an elevation of 3,560 feet 1,085 meters The worn, undulating relief of the Piedmont province, with an elevation ranging from about 300 to about 1,200 feet 90 to 365 meters stretches from the mountains southeastward to the midlands around
  • Although South Carolina has more than 300 types of soils, the land is generally infertile and must be enriched with nutrients for successful cultivation.
  • South Carolina’s climate is subtropical, with hot, humid summers and generally mild winters. Average July temperatures range from the low 70s and
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BRIEFLY EXPLAIN TO THE CUSTOMERS THAT THEY WILL NEED TO BE GONE FROM SC

  • What would be caused and die in this? Birds and other animals like deer and stuff like that...
  • Paleogene Period 65-23 million years ago which consists of the Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene epochs Neogene Period
  • I thank that they would be in this causes because of all of the things that happen but they are more like...
  • 1725, Mark Catesby, an English botanist visited a plantation called Stono, where slaves had uncovered several large fossil teeth while digging in a swamp. The slaves unanimously identified the teeth as elephant molars...
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