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The Ordovician period gets its name from an ancient Celtic tribe that lived in Wales where rock strata from this period are found. Temperatures during the Ordovician period were nearly the same as today. Sea levels were very high, with the greatest worldwide marine transgressions occurring during the Tremadocian period of the Ordovician.

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The Name

The Ordovician period gets its name from an ancient Celtic tribe that lived in Wales where rock strata from this period are found. Temperatures during the Ordovician period were nearly the same as today. Sea levels were very high, with the greatest worldwide marine transgressions occurring during the Tremadocian period of the Ordovician.

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Ordovician

Ordovician comes from an ancient Celtic tribe that


once inhabited the region in Wales where rock strata of
this period
occur.

Temperatures
during the
O
r dov
i cia
n
p
e rio
d was
nearly the same
as it is now
Sea levels were high during the Ordovician; in fact during the Tremadocian, marine transgressions
worldwide were the greatest

Late Ordovician World

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