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- abbreviation
megayear
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Examples
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During his period of indecision the Virgin appeared to him in a vision, and commanded him to build his new church in a place called Myr-field, or, as some accounts have it, Maer-field.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874
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Leading the group were shares of Myr Group , up about 9.6% and shares of Pike Electric up about 6.4% on the day.
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Aralorn and Wolf have separately befriended Myr, and both set out to help him regain his kingdom, and to somehow find a way of defeating the sorcerer.
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For nebula parameters that satisfy observed mass accretion rates of Myr-old …
Planet-x.com.au » Towards Initial Mass Functions for Asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects 2010
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Gravitational instability can crank out planetary mass objects in the timescales of a few centuries, as opposed to several Myr as required for core accretion.
Astronomers Find Youngest Exoplanet Yet | Universe Today 2010
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ABSTRACT: The observed diversity of dinosaurs reached its highest peak during the mid- and Late Cretaceous, the 50 Myr that preceded their extinction, and yet this explosion of dinosaur diversity may be explained largely by sampling bias.
Neoceratopsian publications for 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009
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It has long been debated whether dinosaurs were part of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution KTR, from 125–80 Myr ago, when flowering plants, herbivorous and social insects, squamates, birds and mammals all underwent a rapid expansion.
Neoceratopsian publications for 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009
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Within 100 Myr of starting these integrations, five of the simulations resulted in Mars being ejected from the solar system.
Planets Found and Lost Walter Jon Williams 2009
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Pliocene-Pleistocene ice rafting history and cyclicity in the Nordic Seas during the last 3.5 Myr.
Variability in hydrographic properties and currents in the Arctic 2009
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Although an apparent explosion of dinosaur diversity occurred in the mid-Cretaceous, coinciding with the emergence of new groups e.g. neoceratopsians, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, hadrosaurids and pachycephalosaurs, results from the first quantitative study of diversification applied to a new supertree of dinosaurs show that this apparent burst in dinosaurian diversity in the last 18 Myr of the Cretaceous is a sampling artefact.
Neoceratopsian publications for 2008 ReBecca Foster 2009
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