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|rowspan="4" style="background:{{period color|Eocene}}"| [[Eocene]]
 
|rowspan="4" style="background:{{period color|Eocene}}"| [[Eocene]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Priabonian}}"| [[Priabonian]]
 
|style="background:{{period color|Priabonian}}"| [[Priabonian]]
|rowspan="4"| [[Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth|Moderate, cooling climate]].  Archaic [[mammal]]s (e.g. [[Creodont]]s, [[Condylarth]]s, [[Uintatheriidae|Uintatheres]], etc) flourish and continue to develop during the epoch. Appearance of several "modern" mammal families. Primitive [[Cetacea|whales]] diversify.  First [[grass]]es. Reglaciation of Antarctica and formation of its [[ice cap]]; [[Azolla event]] triggers [[ice age]], and the [[Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth|Icehouse Earth]] climate that would follow it to this day, from the settlement and decay of [[seafloor]] [[algae]] drawing in massive amounts of atmospheric [[carbon dioxide]],<ref name="Royer" /><ref name="atmospheric-carbon-dioxide" /> lowering it from 3800 [[parts per million|ppmv]] down to 650 ppmv. End of [[Laramide Orogeny|Laramide]] and [[Sevier orogeny|Sevier Orogenies]] of the [[Rocky Mountains]] in North America. [[Orogeny]] of the [[Alps]] in Europe begins. [[Hellenic Orogeny]] begins in Greece and [[Aegean Sea]].
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|rowspan="4"| [[Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth|Moderate, cooling climate]].  Archaic [[mammal]]s (e.g. [[Creodont]]s, [[Condylarth]]s, [[Uintatheriidae|Uintatheres]], etc.) flourish and continue to develop during the epoch. Appearance of several "modern" mammal families. Primitive [[Cetacea|whales]] diversify.  First [[grass]]es. Reglaciation of Antarctica and formation of its [[ice cap]]; [[Azolla event]] triggers [[ice age]], and the [[Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth|Icehouse Earth]] climate that would follow it to this day, from the settlement and decay of [[seafloor]] [[algae]] drawing in massive amounts of atmospheric [[carbon dioxide]],<ref name="Royer" /><ref name="atmospheric-carbon-dioxide" /> lowering it from 3800 [[parts per million|ppmv]] down to 650 ppmv. End of [[Laramide Orogeny|Laramide]] and [[Sevier orogeny|Sevier Orogenies]] of the [[Rocky Mountains]] in North America. [[Orogeny]] of the [[Alps]] in Europe begins. [[Hellenic Orogeny]] begins in Greece and [[Aegean Sea]].
 
|style="background:{{period color|Priabonian}}"| 38.0
 
|style="background:{{period color|Priabonian}}"| 38.0
 
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|rowspan="4" style="background:{{period color|Archean}}"| [[Archean]]<ref name="Precambrian-Time" />
 
|rowspan="4" style="background:{{period color|Archean}}"| [[Archean]]<ref name="Precambrian-Time" />
 
|style="background:{{period color|Neoarchean}}"| [[Neoarchean]]<ref name="Precambrian-Time" />
 
|style="background:{{period color|Neoarchean}}"| [[Neoarchean]]<ref name="Precambrian-Time" />
|colspan="4"| Stabilization of most modern [[craton]]s; possible [[Mantle (geology)|mantle]] overturn event. Insell Orogeny, 2650&nbsp;±&nbsp;150 [[Year#SI_prefix_multipliers|Ma]]. [[Abitibi greenstone belt]] in present-day [[Ontario]] and [[Quebec]] begins to form, stablizes by 2600 [[Year#SI_prefix_multipliers|Ma]].
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|colspan="4"| Stabilization of most modern [[craton]]s; possible [[Mantle (geology)|mantle]] overturn event. Insell Orogeny, 2650&nbsp;±&nbsp;150 [[Year#SI_prefix_multipliers|Ma]]. [[Abitibi greenstone belt]] in present-day [[Ontario]] and [[Quebec]] begins to form, stabilizes by 2600 [[Year#SI_prefix_multipliers|Ma]].
 
|style="background:{{period color|Neoarchean}}"| 2800<ref name="absolute-age" />
 
|style="background:{{period color|Neoarchean}}"| 2800<ref name="absolute-age" />
 
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