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Tertiary period   /tˈərʃəri pˈɪriəd/   Listen
Tertiary period

noun
1.
From 63 million to 2 million years ago.  Synonym: Tertiary.





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"Tertiary period" Quotes from Famous Books



... changes, there being a definite relationship between the chemical constitution of the petroleum and the age of the strata in which it is found. It is almost certain that in the most recent alluvial formations no oil is ever found, its latest appearance being in the rocks of the tertiary period, the place where the solid paraffin is almost exclusively met with; thus helping to show that the latter has been formed from the decomposition of the oil, and is not a residue remaining after the oil has been distilled off. To this conclusion ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 • Various


Words linked to "Tertiary period" :   Eocene, Eocene epoch, Miocene, geological period, Oligocene, period, Pliocene epoch, Paleocene epoch, Age of Mammals, Cenozoic, Paleocene, Miocene epoch, tertiary, Cenozoic era, Pliocene, Oligocene epoch


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