It happened 252 million years ago, at the boundary of the Permian and Triassic geological ages. |
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In the Beysehir region, kilometre-sized blocks of fusulinid-bearing Permian limestone occur directly beneath the ophiolite. |
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The wonderful silicified Permian ferns from Brazil, such as psaronias, tieteas, and calamites, are also described. |
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The Murihiku Terrane is one of several Permian to early Cretaceous tectonostratigraphic terranes comprising the basement underlying New Zealand. |
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Strong uniformity in Permian ammonoid biostratigraphy and provincialism between Xinjiang and Pamir is suggested. |
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Early Permian lagenides do not exhibit marked provincialism, but there is evidence for paleolatitudinal control on assemblages. |
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The first neuropterans are believed to have appeared during the Permian, almost 300 million years ago. |
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According to these studies, allometric growth is particularly common in Carboniferous and Permian ammonoids. |
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Jansen also describes gabbro, diabase, ultrabasic rocks and Permian limestones in a comparable section on Naxos. |
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These are unconformably overlain by Lower Carboniferous limestones of the Alapaevsk unit and cut by a Permian granite. |
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The great lycopod and cordaite trees of the Carboniferous and Permian were long gone, although smaller lycopods survived. |
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Extensional faults are planed by a regional unconformity that is overstepped by Permian to Cretaceous strata. |
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Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group. |
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Permian and Triassic plutonic complexes comprise monzonite, granite, granodiorite or tonalite with minor gabbro and diorite. |
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Calcareous microgranular and porcellaneous tests evolved in the Carboniferous, and calcareous hyaline tests in the Permian. |
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The Late Palaeozoic palaeomagnetic database for Siberia is poor apart from Late Permian times. |
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We found no palaeontological evidence for marine conditions in the Falklands Permian succession. |
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This family presently contains more than 22 genera subdivided into three subfamilies, and the family extends through most of the Permian. |
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The majority of these flutes commence in the lee of Carboniferous and Permian boulders, indicative of a local subglacial origin. |
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The early Permian saw the continuation of the Carboniferous biomes, with polar tundra regions and warm wet tropical swamp forests. |
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Successions in the more intact Permian units are depositionally underlain by siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. |
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Permian shale, sandstone, siltstone, limestone, sands, marls, and dolostones were deposited by sea-level fluctuations. |
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The conglomerates contain a mixture of basement-derived clasts and large Upper Permian limestone clasts. |
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Whereas the Early Permian pelycosaur record is extensive, Carboniferous pelycosaur remains are rare and poorly known. |
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A characteristic pelycosaur was Dimetrodon, a large predator from the Permian of Texas. |
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Fossils of the group are mostly Cenozoic, though some Permian and Carboniferous fossils are also known. |
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Other orders became very abundant and some appeared for the first time in the Permian. |
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In the dry late Permian environment many types of synapsids and reptiles flourished. |
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Mississippian catillocrinids range from 24 to 50 arms, Pennsylvanian genera have 20, and Permian genera range from 21 to more than 40 arms. |
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The ancestral archosaurs probably originated some 250 million years or so ago, in the late Permian period. |
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Similar features have been seen in Permian and Triassic conifer trunks from Antarctica and North America. |
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Throughout the Permian period the numbers of invertebrate species tends to decrease. |
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Does lithology account for the very different patterns of faulting in the Permian sandstones and dolostones? |
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What about the 30-inch dragonflies, six inch cockroaches, and the dimetrodons of the Permian period? |
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He figured and mentioned a Permian embiopteran, but the features are vague and its assignment not definitive. |
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During the late Permian the dinocephalians suddenly disappeared, and were replaced by a further wave of more mammalian therapsids. |
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They intrude Upper Carboniferous host rocks, but do not penetrate the Permian units. |
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From the Early Permian to the Late Triassic, however, there are only a few reports of mite wood borers. |
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Uppermost Permian and Triassic terrestrial sediments conformably overlie the terminal volcanic rocks. |
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During the Late Permian they evolved huge, heavily armored herbivores, the pareiasaurs. |
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The event, known as the Great Dying, occurred about 250 million years ago at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic periods. |
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The Permian saw the appearance of stoneflies, true bugs, beetles, and caddisflies, among other groups. |
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They are absent in the fossil record between the Early Carboniferous and the Late Permian. |
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Both Permian perrinitid ammonoid areas are located within the transitional belt between the active geosyncline and the adjacent stable platform. |
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The dominant taxa at that time had compressed, moderately to openly umbilicate shells with slowly expanding whorls, morphologies poorly exploited by Permian goniatitids. |
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The age of the Whin Sill complex and the associated dykes can be narrowed down to Late Carboniferous to Early Permian by stratigraphical evidence. |
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There is a gap of several tens of millions of years between the Middle Permian when the last Metoptomatids lived, and the Middle Triassic when the true limpets appear. |
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Conventionally, the Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian systems constitute the Lower Palaeozoic and the Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian comprise the Upper Palaeozoic. |
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It was a fissure filling of Paleozoic, probably Permian, age. |
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All groups of pelycosaurs went extinct by the end of the Permian. |
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The only known igneous rocks in the area are Permian periodotite and lamprophyre dikes as well as diatremes of ultramafic composition associated with the Fluorite district. |
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A major extensional event of Permian age post-dates all of these strata. |
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Following the extinction of the Permian therapsids due to the end Permian-extinction, most of the large animals that populated Pangea were archosaurs or archosauromorphs. |
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This is substantiated by the presence of eroded Permian carbonate clasts. |
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The Maghrebian belt, forming the main part of Sicily, consists of Permian to Oligocene shelf and basinal carbonate successions, followed by younger terrigenous deposits. |
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With the appearance of monographic descriptions of the brachiopods and bivalves, Licharew determined the age of these deposits to be Late Permian. |
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The early Permian rifting in the North Atlantic involved siliciclastic sedimentation in extensional basins and widespread extrusive and intrusive magmatic activity. |
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Athyrids were most abundant during the Silurian and Devonian periods, but still remained common during the early Carboniferous, and even as late as the Permian. |
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The records from coeval localities in Russia and NW China provide independent and unique evidence of deteriorating atmospheric conditions at the close of the Permian. |
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I am today in Odessa, Texas, here to speak this afternoon at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. |
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The Great Dying occurred between the Permian and Triassic periods, when all of today's continents were concentrated in one great land mass called Pangea. |
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Whatever disaster overtook life on Earth at the end of the Permian killed off just about all of the temnospondyls in a fairly short space of time. |
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Permian shelf-type successions there pass into Triassic sandstones and shales with detached Permian limestone blocks, overlain by Upper Triassic neritic carbonates. |
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Biarmosuchians are a group of small-to-medium sized carnivorous therapsids known exclusively from Middle to Upper Permian strata in South Africa and Russia. |
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During the Permian, India was a part of the Gondwanan supercontinent. |
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The extinction occurred at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic periods at a time when all land was concentrated in a supercontinent called Pangea. |
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By Early Permian time certain lagenides were adapted to cool water paleoenvironments, as evidenced by their occurrences in high paleolalitudes and even in glaciomarine basins. |
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At the locality in question, cast-dipping beds of the Middle Permian Park City and Phosphoria Formations form a succession of low ridges and intervening swales. |
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Our first speaker, Silja Saarepuu, spoke on the depiction of animals on bronze and other artefacts found in the Permian and Komi territories of the Russian Federation. |
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Archosauromorph reptiles, especially archosaurs, progressively replaced the synapsids that had dominated the previous Permian period. |
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The top of the Coal Measures may be marked by an unconformity, the overlying rocks being Permian or later in age. |
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All the islands of Scilly are all composed of granite rock of early Permian age, an exposed part of the Cornubian batholith. |
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The additions are attributed to 14 MMBOE in California including 6 MMBOE in the Diatomite, 16 MMBOE in the Uinta, and 8 MMBOE in the Permian. |
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The caves are enlarged out of Lower Permian sandstones and their associated breccias and purple shales. |
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The gorge cut by the river through the Permian Magnesian Limestone can be seen most clearly at Ford Quarry. |
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In the northern part of the county there are examples of Jurassic, Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic. |
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Centrally, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Carboniferous and Permian predominate. |
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Trilobites, which had thrived since Cambrian times, finally became extinct before the end of the Permian. |
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The bedrock underlying Birmingham was mostly laid down during the Permian and Triassic periods. |
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Large aeolian sand dunes are preserved in Permian sandstones near Brodick, showing the presence of an ancient desert. |
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The Permian spanned from 299 to 252 million years ago and was the last period of the Paleozoic Era. |
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During the Permian and Triassic periods, with the Iapetus Ocean entirely closed, Scotland lay near the centre of the Pangaean supercontinent. |
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They were thought at that time to be the British version of Germany's Rotliegendes, which is in fact of Permian age. |
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To Roderick Impey Murchison, Scottish geologist, explorer of Perm Krai, who gives to the last period of the Palaeozoic era the name of Permian. |
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They neared extinction at the end of the Paleozoic era, with just six species known from the Permian period. |
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Some of these were in mass extinctions such as those at the ends of the Permian, Triassic and Cretaceous periods. |
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The concept of the Permian was introduced in 1841 by geologist Sir Roderick Murchison, who named it after the city of Perm. |
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The Permian witnessed the diversification of the early amniotes into the ancestral groups of the mammals, turtles, lepidosaurs, and archosaurs. |
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During the Permian, all the Earth's major landmasses were collected into a single supercontinent known as Pangaea. |
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At the start of the Permian, the Earth was still in an ice age, which began in the Carboniferous. |
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In the late Permian period, the drying continued although the temperature cycled between warm and cool cycles. |
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Permian marine deposits are rich in fossil mollusks, echinoderms, and brachiopods. |
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By the close of the Permian, trilobites and a host of other marine groups became extinct. |
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Terrestrial life in the Permian included diverse plants, fungi, arthropods, and various types of tetrapods. |
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The shelled cephalopods called ammonites recovered, diversifying from a single line that survived the Permian extinction. |
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The fish fauna was remarkably uniform, suggesting that very few families survived the Permian extinction. |
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Also appearing at the end of the Permian were the first cynodonts, which would go on to evolve into mammals during the Triassic. |
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The Permian period saw the development of a fully terrestrial fauna and the appearance of the first large herbivores and carnivores. |
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The special adaptations of reptiles enabled them to flourish in the drier climate of the Permian and they grew to dominate the vertebrates. |
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Permian amphibians consisted of temnospondyli, lepospondyli and batrachosaurs. |
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The Permian through Jurassic stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau area of southeastern Utah. |
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Mitochondrial phylogenetics suggest that the first lizards evolved in the late Permian. |
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The soil is alluvial, derived from Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian rocks. |
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Later, reptiles prospered and continued to increase in number and variety by the late Permian. |
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During the Permian period, the land became dominated by seed plants such as Glossopteris, a pteridosperm which grew in swamps. |
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Towards the end of the Permian period, continued warming led to a dry, hot climate over much of Gondwana. |
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Permian fusulines also developed a remarkable provincialism by which fusulines can be grouped into six domains. |
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However, the Permian extinction at 252 Mya greatly impacted these insects in mass extinction, being the only mass extinction to affect insects. |
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The millerettids, protorothyrids, and pareiasaurs became extinct in the late Permian period and the procolophonoids during the Triassic. |
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One synapsid group, the pelycosaurs, included the largest and fiercest animals of the early Permian. |
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Unambiguous moss fossils have been recovered from as early as the Permian of Antarctica and Russia, and a case is put forwards for Carboniferous mosses. |
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The North Sea rift shows evidence of several separate rift phases from the Permian through to the Earliest Cretaceous, a period of over 100 million years. |
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Locharbriggs is from the New Red Sandstone of the Permian age. |
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The Ozark Plateau is a broad uplifted area which resulted from the Permian Ouachita Orogeny to the south in the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. |
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Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic and Jurassic sediments are found only in small areas in SW Latvia, while the Cretaceous, Palaeogene and Neogene are absent. |
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Lamprophyre dykes of Late Permian age are found throughout Orkney. |
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Today some of the world's largest known potash deposits are spread all over the world from Saskatchewan, Canada, to Brazil, Belarus, Germany, and the Permian Basin. |
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The western margin of the vale is composed of Permian Magnesian Limestone and further to the west are Carboniferous Millstone Grit and Coal Measures. |
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Seismic profiles clearly image these strata continuing beneath a basal Permian unconformity into at least the western part of the Caernarfon Bay Basin. |
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About the middle of the Permian a major transition in vegetation began. |
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The second deal will see Linn Energy selling its oil and gas resources in the Permian Basin based Wolfberry field to Fleur de Lis Energy LLC a private energy company. |
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From the Pennsylvanian subperiod of the Carboniferous period until well into the Permian, the most successful insects were primitive relatives of cockroaches. |
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Towards the very end of the Permian the first archosaurs appeared, a group that would give rise to the crurotarsans and the dinosaurs in the following period. |
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The new technology, currently licensed by ASR to both Oxy Elk Hills and Oxy Permian, uses seismic wave stimulation technology to shake loose oil trapped in existing wells. |
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Therapsids, a group of synapsids, descended from pelycosaurs in the Middle Permian, about 265 million years ago, and became the dominant land vertebrates. |
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The Permian began with the Carboniferous flora still flourishing. |
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During the upper part of the Carboniferous period, a marked decline in echinoid diversity occurred, and this trend continued to the Permian period. |
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Producers in the Permian Basin in Texas are seeing great benefits as they treat and re-use produced and frac flow-back water nearer to the source of the production. |
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Climate change caused the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse which fragmented this habitat, diminishing the diversity of plant life in the late Carboniferous and Permian. |
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These include the Sherwood sandstones that occur beneath much of eastern Nottinghamshire, the Permian Lower Magnesian limestone and the carboniferous limestone in Derbyshire. |
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Permian and Triassic strata overlie these older rocks in the east. |
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There were extensive polar ice caps at intervals from 360 to 260 million years ago in South Africa during the Carboniferous and early Permian Periods. |
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West and east of Doncaster the coal measures are overlain by younger rocks, permian limestone, where the area is referred to as the concealed coal field. |
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