tertiary period in a sentence
Examples
- Mount Yonaha is formed from schist, phyllite, and sandstone, and dates from the Tertiary period to the mid-Mesozoic era.
- Numerous shield volcanoes developed during the Tertiary period in north-central British Columbia and some were active intermittently to recent times.
- The sycamore made up a large part of the forests of Greenland and Arctic America during the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods.
- The podzolic soils are mainly found in layers from the Tertiary Period, which are crossed by fault block from the Mesozoic.
- The Odisha Coastal Plains or Utkal Plains are the depositional landforms of recent origin and geologically belong to the Post-Tertiary Period.
- Brown was given a post graduate scholarship to study Bryozoa ( or Polyzoans ) from the Tertiary period in New Zealand.
- The Siwaliks were formed in the last and the largest number of fossils of the Tertiary period are found in these ranges.
- One hypothesis is that its source may be the remains of an ancient fjord that occupied the Taylor valley in the tertiary period.
- The Magdalena River valley was formed after a series of tectonic formed depressions that filled up with continental sediment in the Tertiary period.
- Reid described the changing climatic conditions in the Tertiary period using the remains of the changing flora seen in the different aged minerals.