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What Was Your Period Like?

In my period, lots of things happened, ice ages, humans and lots more. All of our recent history including wars and everything else we know about happened in the Quaternary Period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argopecten_gibbus

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~fvaughn/illinois_eyes/timeperiod.htm

Index Fossils Found In The Quaternary Period

Calico Scallop, a clam that was formed underwater.

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What Important Events Were Happening In Illinois During The Quaternary Period?

What Fossils Were Formed In The Quaternary Period

Wooly Mammoth, was formed in cold climates during ice ages.

Today Is A Good Day

There were 4 glaciers covering Illinois in The Quaternary Period and they carved the Great Lakes.

http://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/quatern.htm

where the landmasses were

Quaternary Period Epochs

What % Of History Is The Quaternary Period

The climate was cold we know because we mapped the distrubution of ancient coals.

The Quaternary Period is 0.054% of Earths history.

This period has 2 epochs, The Pleistocene Epoch (1.8 mya to 11,000 years ago), and The Holocene Epoch (11,000 years ago to present)

Fossils Found In Illinois From The Quaternary Period

Cold times: spruce logs, woolly mammoth

Warm times: Giant Tortoises

Other: Mastodon, Giant Beaver, Stag Moose

http://www.paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=time_space&sectionnav=state&state_id=23&period_id=7

ice in the poles

http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm

http://www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/quaternary_period.html

Quaternary Period

By: Alex Chaudhry

The Ice Age Period

Qualified Quaternary

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