Re: K/T boundary

[rking@mailhost.flir.COM (A really swell guy who plays go!)]

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> From Clive:- 
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>>   In Britain there's three periods beginning with the letter C, 
>Cambrian,
>> Cretaceous and Carboniferous. So there
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>>And the symbol for Cambrian is not a 'C' anyway but a 'C' with a line 
>through it.  Carboniferous has a straight 'C' and Cretaceous has a 'K' 
>(Kreide = chalk in German).  By the way the 'Tertiary' does not exist 
>anymore.  The Cainozoic begins with the Palaeogene followed by the 
>Neogene Systems each of which is subdivided into Series such as 
>Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, etc.... so that some formal 
>systematics in the upper part of the geological column makes it 
>comparable with formal System breakdown in the lower part of the 
>geological column, e.g., Silurian System - divided formally into 
>Llandovery, Wenlock, Ludlow and Pridoli, on a global basis, ratified 
>by IUGS.
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>Thought you might like the up-to-date stratigraphy that is now formally 
>accepted.  I suppose the boundary should now be the K/P boundary!
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Nah, we'll let the T stand for Palaeogene.  I'm sure P is used somewhere.  :-)