How To Use Fossiliferous In A Sentence
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The richly fossiliferous Namurian bed is packed with both brachiopods and goniatites.
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In addition to the flakes we uncovered two dozen fire-scorched rocks, a biface knife, a broken piece of fossiliferous chert that had been heated.
Bird Cloud
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fossiliferous strata
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The conglomerate is overlain by a claystone-dominated fossiliferous interval, which contains spirorbid worm tubes, abundant conchostracans, plant debris, fusain, and a pygocephalomorph-bearing limestone.
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But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable print of his fin.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Two fossiliferous horizons have been identified at this locality; the multituberculate specimens occur in the lower of these horizons, in a thin layer of indurated black shale below a massive sandstone layer.
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It is distinguished from adjacent terranes of similar age by its open synclinal structure, obviously fossiliferous character, the thickness of essentially conformable strata, and the predominance of volcaniclastic rocks.
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fossiliferous," or shell limestone, and have drawn the erroneous inference that the animal matter once contained in those shells originated petroleum; but no fish oil ever contained paraffin.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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The La Meseta Formation is the best exposed and most fossiliferous rock unit of Eocene age in Antarctica.
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The white to gray flint bed, 2.5 meters thick, rests on gray fossiliferous Vanport Limestone.
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Not only may any kind of fossiliferous rocks occur next to the Archæan, but even the "youngest" may be so metamorphosed and crystalline as to resemble exactly in this respect the so-called "oldest" rocks.
Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
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Given McCain's fossiliferous nature, the claim just might be true.
Lieberman To Break Vow Not To Attack Obama Tonight
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You can't, for instance, use oxygen isotope ratios from fossiliferous limestone as a paleo-temperature proxy if the limestone has been heated too much.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs
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A second scenario is that quarrying operations exposed easily weathered fossiliferous shales, mudstones, or fine-grained sandstones interbedded with limestones.
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Natural History, asserts or confesses that often have objects of material such as fossiliferous limestone and slag been sent to him He says that these things have been accompanied by assurances that they have been seen to fall on lawns, on roads, in front of houses.
The Book of the Damned
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The mountain, Jebel Ichkeul, is composed of Triassic and Jurassic metamorphosed limestones with fossiliferous pseudo-dolomitic marbles exposed in quarries on its south-western slopes.
Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
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In addition to the flakes we uncovered two dozen fire-scorched rocks, a biface knife, a broken piece of fossiliferous chert that had been heated.
Bird Cloud
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The fossiliferous beds at Felsoors have been studied for over 130 years.
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The Fossil Bluff Group consists of fossiliferous, shallow marine to sub-aerial fluviatile sandstones and conglomerates of probable fore-arc origin.
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Strata were examined in the field for evidence of fossil content, and those horizons that appeared to be fossiliferous were sampled in bulk.
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Murchison, Sir R., account of a large fissure through which melaphyre had been ejected, 258; classification of fossiliferous strata, 277; on the age of the Palaeosaurus and Thecodontosaurus of Bristol, 274.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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It was indeed supposed by some of the earlier observers, that the granite of Christiania, in Norway, was intercalated in mountain masses between the primary or paleozoic strata of that country, so as to overlie fossiliferous shale and limestone.
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These rocks are thought to be Ordovician in age based on correlation with fossiliferous rocks at the same structural horizon near Nyalam.
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Areas of overlying sandy sediments were removed to expose the fossiliferous clay.
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In a letter to James Hall he suggested that the Panamanian fossils, if identical to specimens he had collected thirty years earlier in southern Chile, might indicate continuous fossiliferous formation extending throughout South America.
James Eights
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During the years there he devoted his spare time to the geology of the deformed but fossiliferous rocks of the southern uplands, and to probing the mysteries of graptolite anatomy and lineages.
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The lower part of the section consists of natural outcrops at the hillside, whereas the higher, more fossiliferous strata are exposed by artificial trenches.
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The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
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Another conclusion from the facts enumerated above is that there has obviously been a great world catastrophe, and that this must be assigned as the cause of a large part, -- _just how large a part_ it is at present difficult to say, -- of the changes recorded in the fossiliferous rocks.
Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
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Fossiliferous, thin marine shales, associated with biochemical precipitates such as glauconite and phosphorite, are common in transgressive systems tracts.
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The section is very fossiliferous, with an abundant brachiopod, bryozoan, coral, and phacopsid trilobite assemblage.
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The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
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In this great class we should probably have to descend far beneath the lowest known fossiliferous stratum to discover the earlier stages, by which the eye has been perfected.
