Triassic Synonyms

trī-ăsĭk
From 230 million to 190 million years ago; dinosaurs, marine reptiles; volcanic activity
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Triassic period

Words Related to Triassic

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

  • Diabases pierce to Devonian rocks, and olivine rocks appear as dykes amidst the Triassic deposits.

  • The Mesozoic begins with a Triassic land period in the mainland of Australia; while the islands of the Australasian festoon contain the Triassic marine limestones, which fringe the whole of the Pacific. The Triassic beds are best known in New South Wales, where round Sydney they include a series of sandstones and shales.

  • Triassic slates appear in the south-east.

  • And when we know that the Chrysomelidae and Buprestidae also lived in Triassic, and the Carabidae, Elateridae, Cerambycidae and Scarabaeidae, in Liassic times, we cannot doubt that the great majority of our existing families had already been differentiated at the beginning of the Mesozoic epoch.

  • 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.

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