The Cretaceous Stage — The Flowering-Plant Period
Audio File THE AGE OF BIRDS The great Cretaceous period derives its name from the predominance of the prolific chalk-making foraminifers in the seas. The period brings Urantia to … Read More
Tag: Geological history of Earth
The Recent Continental – Elevation Stage
Audio File THE LAST GREAT MAMMALIAN MIGRATION This is the period of preglacial land elevation in North America, Europe, and Asia. The land was greatly altered in topography. Mountain … Read More
The New Continental Land Stage
Audio File THE AGE OF EARLY MAMMALS 50,000,000 years ago, the land areas of the world were very generally above water or only slightly submerged. The formations and deposits of … Read More
The Continuing Ice Age
Audio File Throughout the glacial period, other activities were in progress, but the action of the ice overshadows all other phenomena in the northern latitudes. No other terrestrial activity … Read More
The Recent Flood Stage
Audio File THE AGE OF ADVANCED MAMMALS This period was characterized by the further and rapid evolution of placental mammals, the more progressive forms of mammalian life developing during these … Read More
Primitive Man in the Ice Age
Audio File The great event of this glacial period was the evolution of primitive man. Slightly to the west of India, on land now under water and among the offspring … Read More
The Evolutionary Panorama
Audio File The story of the ascent of our human race from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is indeed a romance of biologic struggle and mind survival. Our … Read More
The Mammalian Era
Audio File The era of mammals extends from the times of the origin of placental mammals to the end of the ice age, covering a little less than fifty … Read More
The Climatic Transition Stage
Audio File THE SEED-PLANT PERIOD THE AGE OF BIOLOGIC TRIBULATION This period marks the end of pivotal evolutionary development in marine life and the opening … Read More