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  2. Fossil record of fire - Wikipedia

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    Fire frequency - this refers to the number of times fire occurs in a given area under a defined geologic time. The concept of fire frequency is often applied to local fire events. [25] Fire intensity - also known as fire severity or magnitude is the degree of fire or the magnitude of fire event. Fire intensity is categorized into low fire ...

  3. Fire history - Wikipedia

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    Tree core sample collected with an increment boarer A cat-face fire scar on a ponderosa pine A cross section of a ponderosa pine fire scar showing several dated fire events The growth record of a tree in seasonal climates is preserved in the growth rings in the stem wood; the field of dendrochronology is the study of the record of climate and ...

  4. Signor–Lipps effect - Wikipedia

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    The Signor–Lipps effect is a paleontological principle proposed in 1982 by Philip W. Signor and Jere H. Lipps which states that, since the fossil record of organisms is never complete, neither the first nor the last organism in a given taxon will be recorded as a fossil. [1]

  5. Geiseltal (fossil deposit) - Wikipedia

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    The Geiseltal fossil deposit is located in the former lignite district of the Geiseltal south of the city of Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is an important site of now extinct plants and animals from the Middle Eocene period 48 to 41 million years ago.

  6. PAS 79 - Wikipedia

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    PAS 79 (Fire risk assessment – Guidance and a recommended methodology) is a Publicly Available Specification published by the British Standards Institution.. This PAS gives guidance and corresponding examples of documentation for undertaking, and recording the significant findings of, fire risk assessments in buildings and parts of buildings for which fire risk assessments are required by ...

  7. Control of fire by early humans - Wikipedia

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    Fire was an important factor in expanding and developing societies of early hominids. One impact fire might have had was social stratification. The power to make and wield fire may have conferred prestige and social position. [35] Fire also led to a lengthening of daytime activities and allowed more nighttime activities. [45]

  8. Environmental DNA - Wikipedia

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    The sedaDNA was subsequently used to study ancient animal diversity and verified using known fossil records in aquatic sediments. [9] The aquatic sediments are deprived of oxygen and are thus protect the DNA from degrading. [9] Other than ancient studies, this approach can be used to understand current animal diversity with relatively high ...

  9. Cambrian explosion - Wikipedia

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    The Cambrian explosion (also known as Cambrian radiation [1] or Cambrian diversification) is an interval of time beginning approximately in the Cambrian period of the early Paleozoic, when a sudden radiation of complex life occurred and practically all major animal phyla started appearing in the fossil record.