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Support extended range of pd.Timestamp with pandas 2.0
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
When querying TIMESTAMP column, with pandas > 2.0 installed, the dtype is 'datetime64[us, UTC]`.
This is using the same precision as bigquery, which is what we want.
However if I query a TIMESTAMP column that contains data that is out of bounds for a 'datetime64[ns, UTC]` (but fit in a 'datetime64[us, UTC]`), the column dtype becomes `object`.
This is inefficient and also we lose meta data here.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
If pandas > 2.0, always return `datetime64[us, UTC]` for timestamp column
**Additional context**
The same thing happens for DATE and DATETIME and should be addressed as well.
This test captures the current behavior: https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery-pandas/blame/72f772ec7b36ba081ed18ef4409f8262a412a1b9/tests/system/test_read_gbq.py#L538
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