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
India's Mawmluh Cave, home of the reference stalagmite for the newly named age.Abhijeet Khedgikar/Shutterstock.comJurassic, 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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