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Azolla event

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A hypothesized palaeoclimatology event in the middle Eocene (49 million years ago), where large blooms of mosquito fern (azolla) caused mass-scale carbon sequestration which lead to the Late Cenozoic Ice Age and glaciation of the Antarctic.

Word forms

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