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Phanerozoic

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Phanerozoic [¦fan·ə·rō¦zō·ik]
(geology)
The part of geologic time for which there is abundant evidence of life, especially higher forms, in the corresponding rock, essentially post-Precambrian.


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2] over Phanerozoic time: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v 65, p.
2 billion years or in the Phanerozoic eon [the last 543 million years]," the researchers report in their SCIENCE paper.
The Bulls-Eye target is an intrusive body approximately 3 kilometers in diameter occurring within the Phanerozoic sediments to the east of Herbert, Saskatchewan.
 
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