Meanings of geological period in English

Eruptions on parallel lines of fissure within the same geological period.

A year of individual life is the symbol of a geological period of progression.

Until now, the oldest animal fossils dated to Earth's next geological period, called the Ediacaran.

At the beginning of our geological period their course was not such a long one.

FLORA.-Thetotality of the plants growing naturally in a country, or during a given geological period.

Sure enough the lake was there, but it had been dry since a previous geological period.

The chain of the Alps was not raised by a single movement nor in a single geological period.

At a later geological period the great plains to the north and east of Santo Domingo City were formed.

They belong to a remote geological period, and have been accumulated by causes which we cannot at present assign.

This period will seldom be remote in any extreme degree, as species rarely endure for more than one geological period.

Subject to these allowances, the fauna of each geological period undoubtedly is intermediate in character, between the preceding and succeeding faunas.

FAUNA.-Thetotality of the animals naturally inhabiting a certain country or region, or which have lived during a given geological period.

The origin of its component mineral matter must be sought in the denudation of the Himalayas within a very recent geological period.

Looking back on it from our own time, it seems more like a geological period than the life-history of a single nation.

Then in the late geological period known as the early Tertiary the land was lifted up again, and once more erosion went on.

But there is no cause for uneasiness: the inundation is at hand, which has never failed since the commencement of our geological period.