Hello! You have opened the document "Miocene period - Eocene"

If you use the Play button you will hear the audio recording of the document, if you use the TEXT button you will open the document in pdf format

  Summary:

   During the Neozoic, the world's landscape was an attractive sight: hilly elevations, spacious valleys, full-flowing rivers, and vast forests. Twice through this stretch of time the Isthmus of Panama rose and fell; three times this section reached the Bering Strait Bridge. The types of animals were as numerous as they were varied. The forests abounded in birds, and the whole world was a paradise for animals, notwithstanding the continual struggle of evolutionary species for supremacy.

 

   The Eocene period. New continental droughts. Age of early milksuckers

   50,000,000 years ago, the continents were generally either above sea level or just barely hidden under water. Suddenly the placental milk-suckers appeared. Mammals have a colossal advantage in the struggle for survival.

   40,000,000 years ago. Throughout this period, the so-called Eocene, the evolution of mammals and other related forms of life continued practically uninterrupted. At this time, North America was joining all the continents except Australia, and the world was gradually filled with a fauna in which various types of primitive mammals were represented.

 

   Oligocene period. New floods. An era of more advanced milksuckers

   35,000,000 years ago, the era of world dominance of placental mammals began. The broad southern land bridge reconnected the then vast Antarctic continent with South America, South Africa and Australia.

 

   Miocene period. Formation of modern mountains. Era of the Elephant and the Horse

   25,000,000 years ago, after a prolonged period of continental uplift, a slight submergence of land took place. The Rocky Mountain region remained at high elevation, so deposition of erosional materials continued eastward throughout the lowlands.

   20,000,000 years ago, the golden age of milksuckers began. The Bering Strait land bridge allowed many groups of animals to migrate to North America from Asia.

   15,000,000 years ago, the mountain regions of Eurasia were uplifted, and some volcanic activity was observed over the whole of this space, which, however, could not be compared with the lava flows of the Western Hemisphere.

 

   Pliocene period. A New Rise of the Continents. Last migration of milksucks

   10,000,000 years ago, the period of extensive local deposition in the continental lowlands began, but most of these strata were subsequently rapidly carried away.

   5,000,000 years ago. The climate was gradually becoming cooler; land plants slowly moved south.

 

   Pleistocene period. The ice age

   Towards the end of the preceding period vast tracts of northeastern North America and northern Europe were highly elevated; in North America, the vast territories were located at an altitude of 9,000 meters and above.

   Simultaneously with these land uplifts, the ocean currents shifted and the seasonal winds changed their direction. As a result, the combination of these conditions resulted in almost continuous precipitation falling in the northern elevations as the moisture-rich air currents moved. In these high-mountainous and therefore cool regions, snowfalls began, which continued until the snow thickness reached 6,000 meters.

   The northern regions of the planet experienced six distinct and distinct ice invasions, although there were numerous movements and subsidences associated with the activity of each individual ice sheet. In North America, the ice was concentrated in two and later three centers. Greenland was hidden under the ice, and Iceland was completely buried under the ice flow. In Europe, ice at various times covered the British Isles, with the exception of the coast of southern England, and spread into western Europe as far as France.

   2,000,000 years ago, the first North American glacier began to move south. The ice age was beginning, which lasted almost one million years - from the beginning of the movement of glaciers from the centers of pressure to the return to it.

   1,500,000 years ago, the first extensive glacier retreated northward. At that time, a huge amount of snow fell in Greenland and northeastern North America, and soon this eastern mass of ice began to move south. This was the second ice invasion.

   1,000,000 years ago. A little to the west of India, in the area that is now under water, among the descendants of the ancient North American type of lemur that migrated to Asia suddenly appeared the milk-suckers, who became the early ancestors of man. These small animals walked primarily on their hind legs and possessed large brains relative to their size and compared to the brains of other animals. In the seventieth generation, a new, more developed group suddenly separated from this type of living beings. These new milk-suckers—the intermediate ancestors of man, who were almost twice the height of their ancestors and who possessed proportionately enlarged brains—had barely established themselves when suddenly the third most important mutation occurred: the primates appeared.

   750,000 years ago, the fourth ice sheet, the union of the central and eastern North American ice fields, deepened in a southerly direction.

   700,000 years ago, the retreat of the fourth glacier, the most extensive of all the glaciers on the territory of Europe, took place; people and animals began to return to the north.

   650,000 years ago the climate remained mild. By the middle of the interglacial period, it became so warm that the Alps were almost completely devoid of ice and snow.

   600,000 years ago the retreating ice reached its then northernmost point, and after a hiatus of several thousand years, climatic changes remained negligible. The people and animals of Europe hardly changed.

   550,000 years ago, the advancing glacier pushed humans and animals south again. But this time man had plenty of room in the wide belt of land that stretched northeastward into Asia and was situated between the ice sheet and the greatly expanded Black Sea part of the Mediterranean.

   500,000 years ago, during the fifth ice invasion, a new turn of events accelerated the course of human evolution. Suddenly and in one generation, as a result of a mutation of the original human race, six colored races appeared. This date has a double significance as it marks the arrival of the Planetary Prince.

   250,000 years ago the sixth and last glaciation began.

   200,000 years ago, during the movement of the last glacier, an event took place that had a huge impact on the course of the historical development of Urantia - the rebellion of Lucifer.

   150,000 years ago, the sixth and final glacier reached the extreme limits of its southward advance: the western ice sheet crossed the Canadian border; the central one descended in the states of Kansas, Missouri and Illinois; the eastern shield shifted south, covering much of the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio.

   100,000 years ago, during the retreat of the last glacier, the formation of the vast polar ice sheet began and the center of ice accumulation moved far north. And until then, until the polar regions are covered with ice, a new ice age is hardly possible, regardless of future land uplifts or changes in ocean currents.

 

 

   Modern Era Neozoic

   35,000 years ago, the Great Ice Age ended everywhere except the polar regions of the planet. This date is also significant in that shortly before this a Material Son and a Material Daughter arrived on the planet and the Adamic judgment period began. This roughly corresponds to the beginning of the Holocene, or post-glacial period.

   The first spread of the violet race in Europe ceased due to some extremely sudden climatic and geological changes. As the northern ice fields retreated, moist westerly winds moved north, gradually turning the open grassland regions of the Sahara into bare desert.

   About this time, when these climatic changes were taking place, England separated from the continent and Denmark rose from the water, while the Strait of Gibraltar, protecting the western basin of the Mediterranean, collapsed as a result of earthquakes, causing the water in this inland lake to rise rapidly to the level of the Atlantic Ocean. Soon the Sicilian Land Bridge sank, turning the Mediterranean basin into one compact sea and connecting it to the Atlantic Ocean. This natural disaster caused the submergence of a large number of settlements and resulted in the largest number of human casualties in the entire world history of floods.