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Carboniferous period   /kˌɑrbənˈɪfərəs pˈɪriəd/   Listen
Carboniferous period

noun
1.
From 345 million to 280 million years ago.  Synonym: Carboniferous.



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Lower Carboniferous period
Upper Carboniferous period


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"Carboniferous period" Quotes from Famous Books



... intermittent slips, now in one part, now in another, which, after the lapse of ages, culminate in a great displacement. Of the length of time occupied in the formation of a single fault, we can make no estimate in years. The anticlinal fault of Charnwood Forest dates from a pre-carboniferous period. In 1893 it ...
— A Study of Recent Earthquakes • Charles Davison


Words linked to "Carboniferous period" :   Pennsylvanian, period, Missippian period, geological period, Paleozoic, Lower Carboniferous period, Upper Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian period, Mississippian, Lower Carboniferous, Paleozoic era


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