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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation million years
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Examples
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Only during the third stage of the Cambrian, the Atdabanian 520 m.y. ago do we see abundantly skeletonized fossils like trilobites.
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Java probably did not exist before the Miocene (24 m.y.).
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Very few rocks are older than 38 million years (m.y.), and the older material is found in the northern islands, with the exception of the Santa Cruz Islands, which are less than 5 million years old.
Vanuatu rain forests 2008
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Java probably did not exist before the Miocene (24 m.y.).
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The metamorphic rocks were Cretaceous (100 m.y.) and Eocene (40 m.y.) ocean sediments that were folded between the Eocene and early Miocene Periods (20 m.y.).
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It would fall into the 17 to 34 m.y. old category of central Nevada ash-flow tuffs (part of the Mid-Tertiary ignimbrite flare-up), and is probably in the 22 to 25 m.y. old range (that's my guess based on work in the region quite a while ago - the rocks haven't aged too much since then).
Geology on the Road: Highway 50 #1 Silver Fox 2008
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Wanted to be volcanologist but shortage of action in England these last few m.y. Oil (sh, don't tell anyone), computers, ambulances.
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xanthems's diary xanthems's Diaryland Diary m.y. just upset. ryan's dirty thirty was fun. tried to have a surprise going away party for dave but i'm a stupid bitch according to him and he hates me for booking a gig without asking him at the thornton arms so its cancelled now. i'm just frustrated. i don't get anything right now or lately.
m.y. xanthems 2008
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Of course, what’s really at issue here is the environmental threshold that allowed large skeletons to finally calcify 520 m.y. ago, but that point never got a chance to be mentioned.
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