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Eocene
(redirected from Late Eocene period)

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Eocene
Geology of, denoting, or formed in the second epoch of the Tertiary period, which lasted for 20 000 000 years, during which hooved mammals appeared

Eocene [′ēยทə‚sēn]
(geology)
The next to the oldest of the five major epochs of the Tertiary period (in the Cenozoic era).


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The drill cores revealed an unusual layer of jumbled sediments and boulders, called breccias, from the late Eocene period.
 
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