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Plant Life of Kentucky: An Illustrated Guide to the Vascular ...
Tertiary Period The Tertiary Period extended from 65 million years ago to 2
million years ago. During this time North America was drifting westward and
northward to its present position. The continent remained associated with Asia
via the ...
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Early Man in Britain and His Place in the
Tertiary Period
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Sir W. Boyd (William Boyd) Dawkins, 2012
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A Geologic Trip Across Tennessee by Interstate 40
Discontinuous across portions of West Tennessee, these deposits are thought to
be sediments of ancestral streams of the present-day Tennessee, Ohio,
Cumberland, and Mississippi rivers (Miller 1974: 49). Erosion during the Tertiary
period ...
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United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
Since the beginning of the Tertiary period continental conditions have prevailed
in the Navajo country, and the regional uplift which removed the Cretaceous sea
was accompanied by downwarping, domical up- warping, and monoclinal ...
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Discovering Fossils: How to Find and Identify Remains of the ...
Tertiary Period The Tertiary period was the first period of the Cenozoic era and
lasted approximately 63 million years, from 65 million until 1.7 million years ago.
The Tertiary is subdivided into five epochs, whose names are derived from Greek
...
Frank A. Garcia, Donald Stuart Miller, 1998
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Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers with Commentaries
The connection between Africa and India through Madagascar likewise persisted
as late as the beginning of the Tertiary period, being broken only in the Eocene
stage due to the drifting of India northward. This movement of India northward is ...
Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax, James H. Brown, 2004
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... USE Paleoclimatology—Holocene -Tertiary UF Tertiary Period BT
Paleoclimatology—Cenozoic NT Paleoclimatology—Neogene Paleoclimatology
—Paleogene Paleocopida USE Palaeocopida Paleocosta (May Subd Geog) [
QE817.081 BT ...
Library of Congress, 2006
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
The Tertiary Period commenced with the strongly transgressive Paleocene, so by
the end of the Paleocene, mainly carbonate deposits were spread over the
greater part of south Arabia (E.A.P., Dhufar, Oman), the Persian Gulf region, the
Horn ...
The third major episode occurred during the Tertiary Period. Coals formed during
this period range from lignite to anthracite. Tertiary coals form the bulk of the
world's brown coal reserves, but also make up a significant percentage of black ...
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Encyclopedia of Evolution
The flowering plants evolved in the Cretaceous period but proliferated during the
Tertiary period, into the forest trees that dominate the temperate and tropical
regions, and many shrubs and herbaceous species (see angiosperms, evolution
of).
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Earth entered new epoch on July 16 1945, say scientists
The longest of these are periods, such as the Tertiary period, which spans from around 2.5 million years ago to 66 million years ago. Epochs are shorter, such as ... «Telegraph.co.uk, 一月 15»
Anthropocene: is this the new epoch of humans?
It includes periods, epochs and ages. The longest of these are periods, such as the Tertiary period, which spans from around 2.5 million years ago to 66 million ... «The Guardian, 十月 14»
Austrian Mint's "Back from the Dead" Series Returns with "Tertiary …
The Tertiary Period marks the beginning of the Cenozoic Era that began about 66 million years ago and continued on to about 2.6 million years ago. This period ... «CoinWeek, 七月 14»
What Killed Dinosaurs: New Ideas About the Wipeout
... Yucatán Peninsula that dated to the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods—the so-called KT boundary—when the dinosaurs disappeared. «National Geographic, 二月 13»
Searching for the secrets of extinction
The most recent and most familiar is the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs - between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, about 65 million years ago. «BBC News, 十月 11»
Fossil find closes gap in dino extinction
... expect if non-avian dinosaurs became extinct owing to one or more aspects of the phenomenon that produced the KT [Cretaceous-Tertiary period] boundary. «ABC Science Online, 七月 11»
Oil in the Inlet
The region contains two major rock sequences from the Mesozoic era and the Tertiary period, both with maximum thicknesses well in excess of 20,000 feet. «Petroleum News, 六月 11»
Experts Reaffirm Asteroid Impact Caused Mass Extinction
... the Cretaceous period and the start of the Paleogene period (formerly called the Tertiary period). They refer to the time of the extinctions as the K-Pg boundary. «University of Texas at Austin News, 三月 10»
Dolphins, whales are mammals without legs
... earth sciences at Rockford's Burpee Museum, said, "Whales and dolphins did have terrestrial ancestors in the early Tertiary Period about 60 million years ago. «Chicago Daily Herald, 七月 09»
A tale of two autumnal displays
Lev-Yadun and Holopainen have proposed that the trigger for the difference first occurred millions years ago in the Tertiary Period. They suggested that ... «BBC News, 七月 09»
