Carboniferous Synonyms

kärbə-nĭfər-əs
From 345 million to 280 million years ago
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Carboniferous period
Relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. carbonaceous
  2. carbonous
  3. carbonic

Words Related to Carboniferous

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. devonian
  2. triassic
  3. permian
  4. ordovician
  5. palaeozoic
  6. cretaceous
  7. precambrian
  8. eocene
  9. paleozoic
  10. oligocene
  11. neoproterozoic
  12. palaeogene
  13. dalradian
  14. miocene
  15. upper-cretaceous

Carboniferous Sentence Examples

  • Jager has described coprolites from the alum-slate of Gaildorf in Wurttemberg; the fish-coprolites of Burdiehouse and of Newcastle-under-Lyme are of Carboniferous age.

  • The mountains both in Victoria and New South Wales were snow-capped, and glaciers flowed down their flanks and laid down Carboniferous glacial deposits, which are still preserved in basins that flank the mountain ranges, such as the famous conglomerates of Bacchus Marsh, Heathcote and the Loddon valley in Victoria, and cf Branxton and other localities in New South Wales.

  • The Permian deposits are best developed in New South Wales and Tasmania, where their characters show the continuation of the Carboniferous conditions.

  • It has been ascertained from recent explorations that the area of carboniferous formation in that state extends from the Irwin northwards to the Gascoyne river, about 300 m., and probably all the way to the Kimberley district.

  • The limestone has yielded Proetus, Chonetes and other fossils, and is believed to be of Carboniferous age.

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