[DOC] [TLE] Cenozoic Era | geochronology | Britannica.com [PAR] Oct 2, 2015 ... The Neogene spans the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, and the Quaternary ... 
Several of the world's great mountain ranges were built during the Cenozoic. ... 
From about five million years ago, the Rocky Mountains and adjoining ... global 
ocean system about 6 million to 5 million years ago and had formed... [DOC] [TLE] Copy of Geological Time Scale by Luo Wenxing on Prezi [PAR] 4000 million years ago 488 million years ago 443.7 million years ago 416 ... 
million years ago is characterized by a warm, humid climate, even up to very ... 2 
Epochs > Upper (lasted 34.5 years)Lower (44.5 years) Rocks found in: ... The 
Rocky and the Andes Mountains formed in North and South America during this 
period. [DOC] [TLE] Copy of Geological Time Scale by Greg Perry on Prezi [PAR] on 5 March 2013 ... 4000 million years ago 488 million years ago 443.7 million 
years ago ... This time was ended because of an extinction event. ... Key Facts 
Physical Features During the second period of this era, it was a ... years ago is 
characterized by a warm, humid climate, even up to very ... Eocene-23 million 
years [DOC] [TLE] Timeline 70 Million to 1 Million - Timelines of History [PAR] Some seventy million years ago it began drifting northward toward Asia. ... The 
Atlantic widened, the Rockies were raised, the Himalayas were formed, and the 
Alps formed in that order. .... 60Mil BC During the last 60 or so million years the 
break-up of Pangaea ..... 38Mil BC - 23Mil BC Oligocene (little or few-recent) 
Epoch [DOC] [TLE] Tertiary - History of Earth's climate [PAR] During Tertiary Earth's temperature steadily fell over 65 million years down to ... 
The five epochs of Tertiary are Pal for Paleocene, Eo for Eocene, Ol for .... Twenty 
million years ago the clash between Africa and Europe created the Alps. The 
Andes Mountains of South America started a major build up fifty million years ago
. [DOC] [TLE] Geological history of Earth - Wikipedia [PAR] The geological history of Earth follows the major events in Earth's past based on 
the geologic time scale, a system of chronological measurement based on the 
study of the planet's rock layers (stratigraphy). Earth formed about 4.54 billion 
years ago by accretion from the solar nebula, ... The present pattern of ice ages 
began about 40 million years ago, then... [DOC] [TLE] Quaternary glaciation - Wikipedia [PAR] The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation or the 
current ice age, is a series of glacial events separated by interglacial events 
during the Quaternary period from 2.58 Ma (million years ago) to present. During 
this period, ice sheets expanded, notably from out of Antarctica and ... The 
Quaternary glaciation was the first ice age to be demonstrated in... [DOC] [TLE] Detailed logarithmic timeline - Wikipedia [PAR] This timeline shows the whole history of the universe, the Earth, and mankind in 
one table. Each row is defined in years ago, that is, years before the present date, 
with ... 14 000 million years ago to 5 500 million years ago[edit] ... galaxies, 
earliest quasars, habitable epoch NGC 6522 star cluster forms, at least 12 Ga 
ago. [DOC] [TLE] Ice Ages [PAR] Furthermore because ice sucks up the water from the oceans onto the land, the 
ocean ... Furthermore there is evidence of glaciation as far back as 700 million 
years ago. ... The first mini-Ice Age peaked 5000 years ago, but the glaciation 
was only slightly ... In this Ice Epoch we have had no less than 23 major Ice Ages. [DOC] [TLE] Palaeos Cenozoic: The Cenozoic Era [PAR] During the 65 million years of the Cenozoic Era (also spelled "Cainozoic"), ... But 
Tertiary and Quaternary were retained for the two main ... Some of these, like 
today's Alps, are difficult to overlook. ... Page 5 ... The following table gives the 
component periods and epochs that make up ..... 55.8 million years ago ..... Page 
23... [DOC] [TLE] ALPS - Salem Press [PAR]

Question: The Alps & the Andes were built up during this epoch 5 million to 23 million years ago
Answer: the Miocene