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Meaning of "fossiliferous"
fossiliferous (adjective): describing a rock or geologic formation containing a large number of fossils. This term is often used in the field of paleontology or geology to refer to layers or deposits with abundant fossil remains
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- Containing fossils.
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They are weakly metamorphosed and highly fossiliferous.
Thin fossiliferous beds are dispersed in its upper part.
This part of the geologic formation is fossiliferous.
A behavioral study of fossiliferous shales was conducted by artificial ageing.
The siltstones are frequently fossiliferous.
Individual fossiliferous surfaces can be correlated up to several kilometres.
The oldest system of fossiliferous rocks.
The body of fossiliferous strata between two specified biohorizons.
The formation is not fossiliferous.
It is also the most fossiliferous especially for ammonite fossils.
It is overconsolidated and highly fossiliferous.
The formation consists of fossiliferous limestones with minor levels of dolomites.
This formation is not fossiliferous.
Among the second are the fossiliferous rocks which mainly preserve the imprints of animals.
Some of the rocks are fossiliferous.
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This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mali.
To the question why we do not find rich fossiliferous deposits.
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Zimbabwe.
Until recently these were regarded as the oldest fossiliferous rocks.
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Armenia.
On their sudden appearance in the lowest known fossiliferous strata.
They are overlain by the fossiliferous limestones of the Antalo group.
Fossiliferous sediments have long been known to occur along the banks of the Goulais River.
The littoral zone contains the only fossiliferous strata.
The group consists of two fossiliferous limestone formations deposited during the Turonian.
The limestones and dolomites of the Ellenburger Group are typically nonglauconitic and sparingly fossiliferous.
It is not fossiliferous.
Very limited detailed descriptions of the Haynesville Shale indicated that it is fossiliferous.
It is often fossiliferous.
The fossiliferous concretions are usually found within the thickest deposits of Francis Creek.
It is highly fossiliferous.
Limestone fossiliferous re-crystallized with heterogeneous texture in which they predominate over the reddish tonalities.
In this work microvertebrate materials from pirapozinho fossiliferous site were colected and described.
One of the most fossiliferous units within the Santa Monica Mountains.
Marius Arsenault was actively involved in developing the fossiliferous site at Miguasha.
A very ancient system of fossiliferous rocks belonging to the earlier part of the Palaeozoic series.
At the site, a chapel had been built into the fossiliferous rocks.
Ltd. when they found fossiliferous deposits near the mountain.
For the most part, these shale units are not fossiliferous.
The Aghil formation is a fossiliferous carbonate formation.
These blueschist-facies volcanic rocks are in fault contact with the fossiliferous mudstones.
The Middle Awash valley contains late Miocene fossiliferous sedimentary sequences that can fill this gap.
The solimões formation compresses the solimões basin neogene strata, which owns a wide fossiliferous source.
There are three main fossiliferous outcrops in brejo municipality, northeastern maranhão state.
The Allies recaptured Bernissart just as the first fossiliferous layer was about to be uncovered.
For example, the Burgess Shale is an exposure of dark, occasionally fossiliferous.
The profiles of sedimentary successions, fossiliferous areas were correlated from the comparison of their facies.
In 1924, a limestone quarry owner at Taung shipped Dart a box of fossiliferous rock.
The formation is time-equivalent with the fossiliferous Floresta and Cuche Formations of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense.
In 1907, Douglass traveled to the Uintah Basin in northeastern Utah to explore fossiliferous strata.
