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Carboniferous period   /kˌɑrbənˈɪfərəs pˈɪriəd/   Listen
Carboniferous period

noun
1.
From 345 million to 280 million years ago.  Synonym: Carboniferous.



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Lower Carboniferous period
Upper Carboniferous period


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... alphabet after his name, the author of "Polymerization of the Pseudo-Metallic Nitrides" and the proper owner of this building and its contents. But Tommy saw him against a background of tree-ferns such as should have been extinct upon this earth since the Carboniferous Period, some ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various
... disturbances of the Kashmir region did not, apparently, extend to the eastern Himalayan area. But the Carboniferous Period was, in this ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly


Words linked to "Carboniferous period" :   Mississippian, geological period, Pennsylvanian period, Paleozoic era, Missippian period, Paleozoic, Upper Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian, Lower Carboniferous, period


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