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Excerpt from The Recognition of Pleistocene Faunas
In the first edition of Dana's Manual Of Geology, published in 1863, this great author divided the Post-tertiary, equivalent to the term Pleistocene, into two epochs, the Glacial and the Champlain. The latter was followed by the Terrace epoch, a transition epoch, in the course of which the peculiar Post-tertiary life ends and the Age of Man opens. As to the life of the Post-tertiary Dana says (pp.
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