Welcome to the new Meghalayan age – here's how it fits with the rest of Earth's geologic history
- Written by Steve Petsch, Associate Professor of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites or other enigmatic animals unlike anything in our modern world.
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