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“Could Oil Stop Driving Cars?” Plus, “Tires Jam Cars Through Quakes.”

 

Mnemonic Device:

  • “Could Oil Stop Driving Cars?” Plus, “Tires Jam Cars Through Quakes.”

Explanation: to remember these geological time periods

  • Paleozoic
    • Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian
  • Mesozoic
    • Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
  • K-T extinction
    • Cretaceous-Tertiary
  • Current time period
    • Quaternary
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