Meanings of tertiary period in английском

The granite of Mont Blanc rose during a recent tertiary period.

Here was the vegetation of the tertiary period in its fullest blaze of magnificence.

But during the tertiary period the large brain began to increase with marvellous rapidity.

No doubt in the post- tertiary period considerable commotions were still disturbing the crust of the earth.

At the close of the tertiary period great changes once more took place in the Northern hemisphere.

I know that remarkable than the bones of the mammoth and other mammals of the post- tertiary period.

Anthracite coal is not found in the country, that which is in evidence being from the tertiary period.

They exist in large masses in the northern hemisphere, deeply embedded in the alluvial deposits of the tertiary period.

And his grave face as he worked in silence was as still as the stones of the post- tertiary period.

Towards the end of the tertiary period, after a time of quiet, there was a new rise of the land.

Here we have undoubtedly a sporadic deposit-whatminers call a pocket-ofpure gold in a Devonian formation of the post- tertiary period.

Captain Grey, and other travellers, have found in Southern Australia upraised shells, belonging either to the recent, or to a late tertiary period.

They developed rapidly in a geological sense, and flourished about the middle of the tertiary period; then, to use Agassiz's phrase," time fought against them."

The Cenozoic era comprises two divisions,-theTERTIARY period and the QUATERNARY period.

The Tertiary period included epochs when the earth's crust was singularly unquiet.

They lived during the Tertiary period, and are found fossilised in the Miocene.