The Earth experienced a massive shift in climate at the end of the Permian Era.

地球经历了在二叠纪时代的结束，在气候发生了巨大变化。

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This was the end of the Permian period, and of the era of life called the Paleozoic.

这就是二叠纪以及整个古生代的终结。

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Carboniferous: of, belonging to, or denoting a geologic division of the Paleozoic Era following the Devonian and preceding the Permian.

石炭纪的，石炭系的：(属于或表示)地质上的一个分段，即紧跟着泥盆纪而早于二叠纪的古生代的。

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Back then, in the Permian era, a vast inland sea covered much of west Texas and south-eastern New Mexico.

ECONOMIST: Old salts