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Meaning of "tertiary period"

A geological time period that occurred between the Mesozoic and Quaternary periods and is characterized by the rise of mammals and the appearance of modern plant species

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tertiary period
The end of the tertiary period and the beginning of.
The territory is made up of land belonging to the Tertiary period.
Here was the vegetation of the tertiary period in its fullest blaze of magnificence.
The survivors speciated rapidly during the Tertiary period.
In the Tertiary period the area was covered by thick forests.
No known fossils are attributed to hystricomorphs prior to the late Tertiary period.
During the tertiary period this island was separated from the Asian mainland by a shallow sea.
This city has been built on the sediments of the Tertiary period.
Tertiary Period large oceanic basin.
It harbours the vestiges of a vegetation dating back from the Tertiary period.
The Tertiary period.
They differ widely in age but were probably formed during the Tertiary period.
These tertiary period lands are covered with,.
The district is entirely covered by the Deccan trap flows of the tertiary period.
Early part of the tertiary period the number of species of shells, and.

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The syncline was buried in younger rocks of the Tertiary Period.
Alpine Orogeny, occurred in the tertiary period and is still in action.
The shaping of the present Moselle landscape began in the Tertiary period.
Europe 's present shape dates to the late Tertiary period about five million years ago.
Deformation began in Carboniferous times and recurred with decreasing intensity up to the Tertiary Period.
Bolca, world capital of the Tertiary period fossils.
Geological formation The Ghassoul or Rhassoul is a riparian sedimentary formation generated during the tertiary period.
Final epoch of the Tertiary period.
The Tertiary period began 65 million years ago and lasted for more than 63 million years.
Luray Caverns does not date beyond the Tertiary period.
It may refer to, The Tertiary period of the geologic time scale.
The Pyrenees were formed during the Tertiary period.
The existence of man in the Tertiary period seems now fairly established . ".
Bulgaria is also rich in relic species, including some from the Tertiary period.
In 1828, Charles Lyell incorporated a Tertiary Period into his own, far more detailed system of classification.
The Fabaceae have an abundant and diverse fossil record, especially for the Tertiary period.
The last epoch in the Tertiary Period.
The region is part of the Venezuelan Coastal Range, formed during the Tertiary period.

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