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Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. This system’s 2012 update rejected calibration from SHRIMP analyses with the “Sri Lanka 13” standard. Thomas Halliday described places separated by this system in Otherlands. New Zealand’s regional version of this system uses a series named for Wanganui. Siegfried Zielinski’s pioneering book on media archaeology borrows a term for the scope of this system coined by John McPhee in Basin and Range. Part of this system is disparaged as the “Boring Billion.” (10[1]-5[1])“Early” sections (10[1])of this intangible system are demarcated at the “lower” limits of corresponding biozones by “golden (10[1])spikes.” This system’s divisions, (10[1])which are measured in mya (“M-Y-A”) and include the (10[1])Guadalupian, (10[1]-5[2])correspond to global (10[1])boundaries (10[2])set by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. (10[2])For 10 points, what system of divisions of the Earth’s past defines the Silurian and (10[1])Mesozoic? (10[1])■END■ (10[8]0[2])

ANSWER: geological time scale [or geological past; accept deep time; accept geological time periods, geological epochs, geological eras, or eons; accept geochronology or chronostratigraphy or word forms; prompt on stratigraphy, strata, geology, geological, or earth science by asking “what intangible system does it define?”; prompt on time, past, chronology, periodization, epochs, or eras; prompt on GTS by asking “what does that stand for?”] (SHRIMP is a sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe used to date zircon.)
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Eve FleisigBerkeley AMichigan78-5
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Alex AkridgeIndianaKentucky9910
Jack RadoColumbia BCornell A10710
Conor ThompsonIowa StateVirginia10810
Owen MimnoNYUChicago B108-5
Lexi TermanRutgersDuke108-5
Akshay SeetharamClaremont CollegesOttawa11110
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Claire JonesChicago ACornell B13410
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Yashwanth BajjiMichiganBerkeley A1360
Mason YuBrownColumbia A13610
William FosterChicago DToronto B13610
Justin WytmarIllinoisMcGill13610
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Jonathan LauJohns HopkinsMinnesota B13610
Robert CondronChicago BNYU13610
Jem BurchYale BPenn13610
Ashish SubramanianDukeRutgers13610
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