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Upper Carboniferous

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Upper Carboniferous
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Noun1.Upper Carboniferous - from 310 million to 280 million years agoUpper Carboniferous - from 310 million to 280 million years ago; warm climate; swampy land
Carboniferous, Carboniferous period - from 345 million to 280 million years ago


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The earliest known records of amphibians, the first land vertebrates, date to 360 million years ago, but it is not until the Upper Carboniferous, 50 million years later, that the fossil record becomes plentiful.
Projected drilling depths are 1300-1400 meters, with targeted pay zones starting from 500-600 meters at Upper Carboniferous.
 
 
 
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