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Moscovian, deriving from Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, the capital of Russia

Russia

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, can have the following meanings:

An inhabitant of Moscow.
In stratigraphy
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy, a branch of geology, studies rock layers and layering . It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks....

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- Moscovian (Carboniferous)
  Moscovian (Carboniferous)
  The Moscovian is in the ICS geologic timescale a stage or age in the Pennsylvanian, the youngest subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Moscovian age lasted from 311.7 ± 1.1 to 306.5 ± 1.0 Ma, is preceded by the Bashkirian and is followed by the Kasimovian...
  
  , an ICS stage in the Carboniferous;
- Moscovian (Pleistocene), a regional stage in the Pleistocene.

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