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A geologic time scale chart showing the Permian period of the Paleozoic era, divided into Cisuralian, Guadalupian, and Lopingian epochs with their corresponding ages and 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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A geologic time scale chart showing the Permian period of the Paleozoic era, divided into Cisuralian, Guadalupian, and Lopingian epochs with their corresponding ages and millions of years ago.
Permian Period in geologic time The Permian Period and its subdivisions.

Wordian Stage

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John P. Rafferty writes about Earth processes and the environment. He serves currently as the editor of Earth and life sciences, covering climatology, geology, zoology, and other topics that relate to...
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Wordian Stage, second of three stages of the Middle Permian (Guadalupian) Series, made up of all rocks deposited during the Wordian Age (268.8 million to 265.1 million years ago) of the Permian Period. The name of this interval is derived from the Wordian Formation located in the Glass Mountains of western Texas in North America. In 2001 the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) established the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) defining the base of...

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