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geological era

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Noun1.geological era - a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
era
geologic time, geological time - the time of the physical formation and development of the earth (especially prior to human history)
eon, aeon - the longest division of geological time
geological period, period - a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"


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Thus in Marmagne the unfathomably distant time of a remote geological era merges with the infinitesimal, with the minimal and imperceptible time of the slow, everyday mutation of things: a passing cloud, dry twigs floating by, a flower, the ruffling of the surface, the nature that lines the water sinking into the vegetation filling one of the basins.
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They launched that campaign only two years ago, but to judge from their rhetoric it seems like a relic from another geological era.
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