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Carboniferous   /kˌɑrbənˈɪfərəs/   Listen
Carboniferous

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era.
2.
Relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon.  Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous.
noun
1.
From 345 million to 280 million years ago.  Synonym: Carboniferous period.



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... period. Many distinctions founded on this belief have since had to be abandoned. [699] Species of algae belonging to the well-preserved group of the diatoms, are said to have remained unchanged from the Carboniferous period ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries
... show that the vital units, or germinal principles of life, in the case of fungi, are just as dependent on "conditions" for their development, as were the primordial germs of the gigantic cryptogams of the carboniferous era. These primordial germs, or the ZRA of the Bible genesis, must have preceded the first fungous growth, as they preceded the first ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright
... glibly rattled off, "is the organic remains of a three-toed woolly bronsolumphicus of the carboniferous limestone, or Upper Silurian trilobite period. I believe I have the name correct. It was dug up out of a dry lake in Wyoming that years ago got to be mere loblolly, so that this unfortunate critter bogged down in it. The poor thing ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson
... the falls comes to mind, but, wonderful as it is, and well deserved as is its fame, compared with this it is only a bright rainbow ribbon at the roots of the pines. Each of the series of level, continuous beds of carboniferous rocks of the canon has, as we have seen, its own characteristic color. The summit limestone-beds are pale yellow; next below these are the beautiful rose-colored cross-bedded sandstones; next there are a thousand feet of brilliant red sandstones; and below these the ...
— The Grand Canon of the Colorado • John Muir
... with our increase of knowledge, the gaps between the older formations become fewer and smaller; geologists of a few years standing remember how beautifully has the Devonian system{328} come in between the Carboniferous and Silurian formations. I need hardly observe that the slow and gradual appearance of new forms follows from our theory, for to form a new species, an old one must not only be plastic in its organization, becoming ...
— The Foundations of the Origin of Species - Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 • Charles Darwin


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