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"Cenozoic" Quotes from Famous Books

... geologic ages are as well defined as elsewhere. The synchronism remains to be fully established by palaeontological proofs. He thinks he has been able to fix upon the true point of division between the Mesozoic and Cenozoic ages, and to prove that coal was deposited through about 7,000 feet of Cretaceous and about 4,500 feet of Cenozoic beds. Mr. Powell's literary style is excellent—not involved, but clear and energetic. He was wise to abandon the idea of ...

— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various

... early part of the fourth great geological Time—the Cenozoic—nearly the whole continent was above water. Still the Gulf of Mexico covered a considerable portion of the extreme Southern States, and one of its bays extended as far north as the mouth of the Ohio, which had not yet become a tributary of the Mississippi. The Missouri ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various

... Highly folded marine and brackish water strata younger than the Jurassic, but more especially those of Cenozoic time. ...

— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith

... about their Atlantises,—their submerged continents!" he exclaimed, with a sniff through his wide, hairy nostrils. "Why, Trednoke, do you realize that we are living literally at the bottom of a Mesozoic—at any rate, Cenozoic—sea?" ...

— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne