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"Quaternary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and lakes, which have come and gone on the face of Europe and of other parts of the world as it has slowly sunk and slowly risen again. The last 200 feet or so of deposits we call the Pleistocene or Quaternary; the rest are known as the Tertiary strata. They are only a small part of the total thickness of aqueous deposit of stratified rock—which amounts to 60,000 feet more before the earliest remains of life in the Cambrian beds are reached, whilst older than, and therefore below this, we ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester |
Words linked to "Quaternary" : Cenozoic era, Age of Mammals, glacial epoch, multiple, Pleistocene, quaternary ammonium compound, Pleistocene epoch, geological period, figure, Cenozoic, recent, digit, Holocene epoch, four, Holocene, quadruplet, period, Recent epoch, ordinal, Age of Man |
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