Cainozoic
Americanadjective
adjective
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It is estimated now that between forty and eighty million years have elapsed from the beginnings of the Cainozoic period to the present time.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
THE opening of the next great period in the life of the earth, the Cainozoic period, was a period of upheaval and extreme volcanic activity.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It is almost unnecessary to say this period corresponds with the Tertiary or Cainozoic era of geologists.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
Mesozoic, term explained. — and Cainozoic periods, gap between the. — and Palaeozoic rocks, limits of the.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
The great world summer of the middle Cainozoic period drew at last to an end.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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