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Caenozoic

/ ˌsiːnəˈzəʊɪk /

adjective

  1. a variant spelling of Cenozoic

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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According to Dr Boyce’s hypothesis, it is therefore no coincidence that the second-most abundant source of coal today is rocks of the Cretaceous and the subsequent Caenozoic.

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Then came the Caenozoic age, or age of mammals, three million years, with strata thirty-one hundred feet thick.

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We must owe a debt to the monsters of Mesozoic and Caenozoic time; they helped to fertilize the soil for us, and to discipline the ruder forces of life.

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Man seems to be the net result of it all, of all these vast cycles of Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Caenozoic life.

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