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Proterozoic era

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Proterozoic era: see Precambrian era Precambrian era, name of a major division of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale, table), from c.5 billion to 570 million years ago. It is often divided into the Archeozoic and Proterozoic; in other countries, the Precambrian is broken into other divisions,
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It has always been thought that the Earth completely froze twice during the late Proterozoic era between 600 and 800million years ago.
2 billion years ago, during Earth's Proterozoic era.
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