carboniferous
IPA: kɑrbʌnˈɪfɝʌs
Root Word: Carboniferous
noun
- (geology) the Carboniferous period
adjective
- (geology) Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the lower, middle and upper Mississippian and lower, middle and upper Pennsylvanian epochs from about 345 to 280 million years ago, when coal was laid down.
- Containing or producing carbon.
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Examples of "carboniferous" in Sentences
- These are probably from the Carboniferous period.
- The rock beneath the carse in this area is carboniferous.
- What the hell is the carboniferous period, Lyda, you ask.
- The Carboniferous was a time of great change for the area.
- The geology is represented by carboniferous coal measures.
- The formation and significance of carboniferous coal balls.
- Opisthobranchia are known from as early as the Carboniferous.
- The reptiles appeared in the subsequent Carboniferous period.
- Mason has also got a new obsession: the carboniferous period.
- The dendroid graptolites survived until the Carboniferous period.
- One of the families is correlative with Lower Carboniferous marine shales.
- The Millstone Grit dates from the Namurian stage of the Carboniferous period.
- Coal strata are nearly confined to the group termed the carboniferous formation.
- It is one great sheet of old coral-reef and coral-mud, which is now called the carboniferous limestone.
- All that chemistry can tell us is the amount of "carboniferous" or "nitrogenous" elements discoverable in different dietetic articles.
- Coal mining waste or spoil tips are, on the other hand, composed of fairly benign carboniferous sedimentary rocks that could be suitable for viticulture.
- The group with which we have to deal is called the carboniferous or coal bearing system, and it includes four classes of rocks, viz.: 1, sandstone; 2, shale or bind; 3, limestone; 4, coal and underclay.
- You cannot diet a patient from a book, you cannot make up the human body as you would make up a prescription, – so many parts "carboniferous," so many parts "nitrogenous" will constitute a perfect diet for a patient.
- From his first, perhaps best book, "The Immense Journey," he showed a gift for transporting his readers across aeonic expanses—evoking the "croaking gloom of carboniferous swamps" and "the surf on Cretaceous beaches where now the wheat of Kansas rolls."
- We found one book about life before the dinosaurs called, "WHEN BUGS WERE BIG," which is actually all about the carboniferous period, and then at the grown-up library, we found another couple that are written for teens that tell the whole story of Earth's pre-dinosaur history.