How To Use Tertiary period In A Sentence
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During the middle to late Tertiary Period, dikes, sills, and small irregular bodies of mafic to silicic igneous material were intruded into the bedded sedimentary and volcanic rocks.
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But it is probable that the multiplication of such movements in the post-Tertiary period has rarely been so great as to produce results like those above described in Moen, for the principal movements in any given period seem to be of a more uniform kind, by which the topography of limited districts and the position of the strata are not visibly altered except in their height relatively to the sea.
The Antiquity of Man
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the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present
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Tertiary and post-Tertiary periods, it does not suddenly make its appearance without premonition in those periods.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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During the middle to late Tertiary Period, dikes, sills, and small irregular bodies of mafic to silicic igneous material were intruded into the bedded sedimentary and volcanic rocks.
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Amidst the first strata I suffered the watery action to expend itself upon cooling, crystallized masses; and by the time I had got him into the tertiary period, amongst the transition chalks of Maestricht and the conchiferous marls of Gosau, he was ready for a new wife.
The Caxtons — Complete
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Thus, though the mammal type of life is the characteristic of the Tertiary and post-Tertiary periods, it does not suddenly make its appearance without premonition in those periods.
History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
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During the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, many shells became coarsely plicate.
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The fossils from the formation represent organisms that thrived during the Pliocene epoch, at the end of the Tertiary period.
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Some confusion has been introduced by the use of the term Cainozoic to include, on the one hand, the Tertiary period alone, and on the other hand, to make it include both the Tertiary and the post-Tertiary or Quaternary epochs; and in order that it may bear a relationship to the concepts of time and faunal development similar to those indicated by the terms
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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During the Cretaceous and the Tertiary periods large parts of the present subcontinent of India were flooded by multiple lava flows.
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Among crustacea, it is very remarkable that trilobites and limulus-like forms are the only representatives of the class during the paleozoic ages; that macrourans prevailed in the same manner during the secondary period; and that brachyurans make their appearance only in the tertiary period.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
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I said last winter that Agassiz was bent on covering the whole continent with ice, and that the motive of the discovery he was sure to make was to make sure that there should be no coming down of any terrestrial life from Tertiary or post-Tertiary period to ours.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
