unfossiliferous
- a word derived from fossiliferous.
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From Derby to Northumberland it forms vast and lofty moors, capping, as at Whernside and Penygent, the highest limestone hills with its hard, rough, barren, and unfossiliferous strata.
From Town Geology by Kingsley, Charles
With his keen eye for fossils he detected organic remains in the Morte slates, previously regarded as unfossiliferous, and these he regarded as including representatives of Lower Devonian and Silurian.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Below these is a monotonous succession of shales, practically unfossiliferous, with occasional quartzites and limestones representing the Upper and Middle Jurassic with at the base beds probably belonging to the Lias.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
The date assigned to its upheaval is "after the unfossiliferous greywacke, or Cambrian strata, and before the Silurian."
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
They are unfossiliferous, and in the absence of undoubted Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian strata in Africa they may be regarded as of older date than any of these formations.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
