Permian Synonyms

pûrmē-ən, pĕr-
From 280 million to 230 million years ago; reptiles
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Permian period

Words Related to Permian

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. triassic
  2. cretaceous
  3. devonian
  4. eocene
  5. ordovician
  6. carboniferous
  7. miocene
  8. oligocene
  9. pliocene
  10. mesozoic
  11. paleozoic
  12. palaeozoic
  13. palaeogene
  14. precambrian
  15. lower-cretaceous

Permian Sentence Examples

  • Both to the east and to the west of this depression the Archean and Palaeozoic rocks which form the greater part of the island are strongly folded, with the exception of the uppermost beds, which belong to the Permian system.

  • At Bajo de Velis, in San Luis, the plants belong to the " Glossopteris flora," which is so widely spread in South Africa, India and Australia, and the beds are correlated with the Karharbari series of India (Permian or Permo-Carboniferous).

  • The latter is, no doubt, identical with the similar sandstone series which is found in the neighbouring Brazilian province of Rio Grande do Sul, and which has there yielded plants which prove it to belong to the Permian or the upper part of the Carboniferous.

  • Russia, rich in salt-springs, but very poor in fossils, are now held by most Russian geologists to be Triassic. The Permian deposits contain marine shells and also remains of plants similar to those of England and Germany.

  • Some of the deposits appear to be of Permian age, but others are probably Jurassic; and they are all included under the general name of the Angara series.

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