地球历史(古生代)(国外英语资料).doc

地球历史(古生代)(国外英语资料) Two, the Phanerozoic (540 million years ago - now) (1) Paleozoic Era (1) the Cambrian (5.43 - 490 million years ago) The Cambrian Phanerozoic (Cambrian) (Phanerozoic) to an ancient place in Rome name name from the British Welsh Cambria, Cambrian strata is the earliest research. Chinese name derived from the old Japanese Japanese Chinese characters Ondoku transliteration of the name Cambrian (pronunciation: Dhaka, - Rome: Kan Bu ki). 1., an ocean dominated world 540 million years ago, or pannotia formed after 60 million years, pannotia split into four continents: Lauren, mainland China, Siberia, the Baltic continent, gondwana. With the expansion of the ocean and pannotia split. The Cambrian climate is warm, sea levels rise, and shallow seas flood large areas of low-lying land. This shallow sea created the most favourable conditions for the creation of new species. 2. great explosion of Cambrian life At the beginning of the Cambrian just after millions of years, including a large number of multicellular organisms living animal taxa, almost all ancestors suddenly appeared, the explosive evolution events known as the Cambrian explosion of life . Skeleton of marine invertebrates with shells, they tend to prosper, benthic life, micro algae and organic matter particles for food, which is the most prosperous of the arthropod animal the Cambrian Trilobites, also known as the trilobite era, followed by the animal and animal Archaeocyathid brachiopod echinoderm animal and Gastropoda animal. (2) the Ordovician (4.9 - 438 million years ago) The Ordovician (Ordovician) is a British geologist C. lapworth named Ordovices in 1879, Ordovices is the Welsh region of a national ancient Ordovician is the Japanese transliteration of Chinese Ordovices. 1. palaeogeography In the Ordovician, many rifting basin makes the ancient continent Lauren West Asia, Siberia and the Baltic, separated from Gondwana, including ancient the Atlantic (Iapetus Ocean) between the Baltic and t