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The Earth is 4600 million years old and its history is divided up into geological periods, each of which spans several tens of millions of years.
The diagram shows extinct organisms that were typical of some of the periods and illustrates the fact that the Isle of Man area has moved across the globe from south to north over the last 500 million years and has been shaped by specific geological events. |
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