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| View Poll Results: Which geological period interests you most? | |||
| Precambrian (beginning of life) |
   
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16 | 25.81% |
| Palaeozoic (the explosion of life) |
  
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19 | 30.65% |
| Mesozoic (dinosaurs, yay!) |
  
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9 | 14.52% |
| Tertiary (flowering of the mammals) |
  
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9 | 14.52% |
| Quarternary (humans get to dominate) |
  
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5 | 8.06% |
| A specific period within one of these time-scales |
  
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4 | 6.45% |
| Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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08-11-2003, 01:33 AM
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Palaeozoic, easily. All those Ordovician trilobites; Acanthostega and Ichthyostega...
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08-11-2003, 05:10 AM
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Precambrian and earliest Paleozoic, naturally.
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08-11-2003, 05:44 AM
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Technically, this poll should be labeled "Your favorite geological era" - although the tertiary is a period, and the era should be cenozoic.
My personal fav is the Carboniferous - when insects ruled the earth! (although they've never stopped...  )NPM |
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08-11-2003, 05:58 AM
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Quote:
I meant "period" in the generic sense of "stretch of time". |
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08-11-2003, 04:02 PM
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I like the Precambrian, for its bunny wabbits.
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08-12-2003, 06:17 AM
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I like big critters....
...that could swallow an IDiot whole!! I admit it, I voted for the dinos!
As a non-biologist, it's always been a fascinating topic. I used to draw dinosaurs (usually fighting/eating each other) as a kid. Triceratops was always my favorite.  Cheers, Lane |
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08-12-2003, 08:59 AM
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I like the Tertiary best. I can't really put my finger on what the reason is.
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08-12-2003, 01:47 PM
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Which period had the smallest bugs?Esp. spiders.
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08-12-2003, 02:27 PM
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I find the little parenthetical summaries of these blocks of time to be misleading and annoying...
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08-13-2003, 01:38 AM
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The Cretinous period, which has brought us modern-day wonders like Dr. Carl Baugh.
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