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From the Editors of About North Georgia |
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Age of Mammals (66 million years ago - Present) |
Quaternary Period
(2 million years ago - Present) Recent discoveries of Archaic Indian remains along Yellow Creek in northeast Cherokee County have pushed the date of earliest inhabatation of north Georgia back to 9,500 B.C. |
Holocene Epoch
The Age of Man (11,000 years ago - Present) |
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Pleistocene Epoch
(1.8 million - 11,000 years ago) First forests begin to grow on the north Georgia mountains. |
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Tertiary Period
(66 - 1.8 million years ago) As oceans recede, Georgia's coastal plain is exposed. |
Neogene
(23 - 1.8 million years ago) |
Pliocene Epoch
(5 - 1.8 million years ago) Eroosion creates the Georgia piedmont |
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Miocene Epoch
(23 - 5 million years ago) |
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Paleogene
(66 - 23 million years ago) |
Oligocene Epoch
(37 - 23 million years ago) |
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Eocene Epoch
(58 - 37 million years ago) |
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Paleocene Epoch
(66 - 58 million years ago) |
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Mesozoic
The Age of Dinosaurs (250 - 66 million years ago) |
Cretaceous
(135 - 66 million years ago) First mammal, bird and insect groups appear. Sand from the Appalachian mountains begins to form Georgia's coastal plain |
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Jurassic
(205 - 135 million years ago) Large dinosaurs roam the earth. Named for the Jura Mountains between France and Switzerland |
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Triassic
(250 - 205 million years ago) Earliest dinosaurs appear. Creation of Lookout Mountain and rock croppings in the Stone Mountain area. |
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Paleozoic
(570 - 250 million years ago) |
Permian
(290 - 250 million years ago) Erosion in North Georgia destroyed all evidence of this period |
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Carboniferous
(365 - 290 million years ago) Large swamps characterized this period, especially in North Georgia. They eventually became coal fields (Dade County). |
Pennsylvanian
(310 - 290 million years ago) |
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Mississippian
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Devonian
(400 - 365 million years ago) Stone Mountain begins forming. Appalachians were undergoing a second episode of mountain building (the Acadian Orogeny) |
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Silurian
(425 - 400 million years ago) North Georgia mountains erode into a vast inland sea covering much of north Georgia. brachiopods, cephalopods, crinoids, and trilobites form fossil evidence |
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Ordovician
(500 - 425 million years ago) Shallow marine environments. Fiirst of three episodes in the formation of the Appalachians |
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Cambrian
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Vendian
(650 million - 544 million years ago) First evidence of life. |
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Precambrian
(Beginning of earth - 650 million years ago) Creation of the Cohutta Mountains and some areas of the Southern Appalachians |
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