tertiary period in a sentence
Examples
- During the Tertiary Period, it was wetter, with thousands of flowers and trees, but has been gradually drying up to become a desert.
- These set the date of these layers to the Tertiary period when the sea occupying the centre of the Paris Basin began to retreat.
- The mountain range was formed through tectonic activities as part of a detachment fault sometime in the mid-Tertiary period, about 30 million years ago.
- During this tertiary period Anne made 2 trips to Europe touring the leading galleries of Europe, taking down some 2300 pages of handwritten notes.
- The Creature Time Match activity teaches the child about the dinosaurs and the corresponding time period whether it be the Jurassic, Cretaceous or Tertiary period.
- Although not related, the Milbanke Sound Group is close to the remains of a much older magmatic feature that was formed during the Tertiary period.
- This lack of glaciations helped create the circumstances in which flora characteristic for the Tertiary period on the European continent has been preserved in Strandzha.
- Laterite cappings that are found in many districts over the Deccan Traps were formed after the cessation of volcanic activity in the early tertiary period.
- From the end of the Triassic period to the middle of the Tertiary period, soft material was worn down or removed by wind and running water.
- Bedrock under the Garibaldi chain consists of Kula plates were subducting along the western margin of the North American Plate during the Jurassic and Tertiary periods.