Cainozoic
Americanadjective
adjective
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Cainozoic and Recent.—No marine deposits of this age are known.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
Cainozoic, or Tertiary.—Beds of this age, in England at all events, are for the most part made up of comparatively soft rocks, gravels, sands, and clays, and are found in the eastern and south-eastern counties.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter
And it is not till Cainozoic times that we have the endogenous grasses and palms and angiospermous exogens.
From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry
At the outset of the Cainozoic period the climate of the world was austere.
From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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