Silurian Period
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the British geologist R. I. Murchison, third period of the Paleozoic era of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale , table) lasting...uplifted during the Ordovician, were being eroded. Large coral reefs and algae were abundant, indicating that warm, shallow...