Eozoic
[ee-uh-zoh-ik]
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adjective Geology.
(formerly) noting or pertaining to the Precambrian Era, especially the period including the beginnings of animal life.
Origin of Eozoic
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Another problem is that of means of subsistence for the Eozoic Foraminifera.
The Story of the Earth and ManJ. W. Dawson
Such a great movement unquestionably closed the Eozoic period of geology.
The Origin of the World According to Revelation and ScienceJohn William Dawson
In the oldest rocks known to geologists—those of the Eozoic time—some indications of the presence of life are found.
Facts and fancies in modern scienceJohn William Dawson
The English chalk and the chalky modern mud of the Atlantic sea-bed, are precisely similar in origin to the Eozoic limestones.
The Story of the Earth and ManJ. W. Dawson
In it the forms of animal and plant life that had been becoming more numerous and varied from the Eozoic onward, culminated.
The Story of the Earth and ManJ. W. Dawson
Eozoic
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