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Geological period   /dʒˌiəlˈɑdʒɪkəl pˈɪriəd/   Listen
Geological period

noun
1.
A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed.  Synonym: period.






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"Geological period" Quotes from Famous Books



... date than the time of Mena, prevailing throughout Egypt. These relics have been discovered in various parts of the country, from Cairo to Luxor, in great numbers. They are the same sort of prehistoric implements which prove to us the early existence of man in so many other parts of the world at a geological period so remote that the figures given by our sacred chronologists are but trivial. The last and most convincing of these discoveries, that of flint implements in the drift, far down below the tombs of early kings at Thebes, ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White



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