Eocene Synonyms

ēə-sēn
From 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Eocene epoch

Words Related to Eocene

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Eocene Sentence Examples

  • In this valley were laid down, either in Eocene or Oligocene times, a great series of lake beds and thick accumulations of brown coal.

  • Outer columns of upper molars similar, the hinder ones not flattened; ridges of lower molars oblique or directly transverse, a third ridge to the last molar in the earlier forms. The Lophiodontidae, which date from the Eocene, come very close to Hyracotherium in the horse-line; and it is solely on the authority of American palaeontologists that the division of these early forms into equoids and tapiroids is attempted.

  • Serpentines, peridotites and diabases are interstratified with the Eocene deposits.

  • The granite, which is intruded through the Eocene beds, is associated with a pegmatite containing tourmaline and cassiterite.

  • It appears, however, to have been partly derived from yet earlier Tertiary deposits (Eocene); and it occurs also as a derivative mineral in later formations, such as the drift.

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