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Carnian Stage Chart showing the Triassic period within the Mesozoic era, listing its division into Lower, Middle, and Upper epochs, with corresponding ages such as Induan, Olenekian, Anisian, Ladinian, Carnian, Norian, and Rhaetian, and marking boundaries in millions of years ago. A detailed geologic time scale chart displaying Earth's history from the Hadean Eon over 4.5 billion years ago to the present, organized by eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages with color-coded columns and corresponding dates in millions of years.
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Carnian Stage
Carnian Stage Alluvial plain red clays of the Travenanzes formation, which dates to the Carnian Stage of the Triassic Period, in the Dolomites, northern Italy.

Carnian Stage

stratigraphy
Also known as: Karnian Stage
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Carnian Stage, lowermost of the three divisions of the Upper Triassic Series, representing those rocks deposited worldwide during Carnian time (235 million to 228 million years ago) in the Triassic Period. The stage name is probably derived from the Austrian state of Kärnten (Carinthia), where the stratotype is located. The Carnian Stage is subdivided into two substages, which in ascending order are the Julian and Tuvalian. Carnian marine strata are correlated worldwide by six ammonoid...

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