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Quebec group

The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.

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Archaean noun · 78% connection

The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of…

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Bad lands unknown · 78% connection

Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fanta…

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Bifid adjective · 78% connection

Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

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Caesura noun · 78% connection

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

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Cambrian adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Si…

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Chazy epoch unknown · 78% connection

An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New Yo…

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Chemung period unknown · 78% connection

A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well dev…

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Cincinnati epoch unknown · 78% connection

An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes th…

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Corniferous adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…

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Dalmania noun · 78% connection

A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.

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Deuterogenic adjective · 78% connection

Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.

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Eurypterus noun · 78% connection

A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long.

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Favosites noun · 78% connection

A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.

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Genesee epoch unknown · 78% connection

The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period cro…

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Graptolite noun · 78% connection

One of numerous species of slender and delicate fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the Silurian rocks. They…

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Heliolite noun · 78% connection

A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.

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Inch noun · 78% connection

A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechani…

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Jurassic adjective · 78% connection

Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden; -- named from certain r…

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