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Cretaceous   /krɪtˈeɪʃɪs/   Listen
Cretaceous

adjective
1.
Abounding in chalk.
2.
Of or relating to or denoting the third period of the Mesozoic era.





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"Cretaceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the middle of Montana up to the Yellowhead Pass in Alberta, or over 350 miles long, where the tops of the mountains consist of jointed limestones or argillites of Algonkian or pre-Cambrian "age," resting on soft Cretaceous shales. Often the greater part of the mass of a range will consist of these "older" and harder rocks, which by the erosion of the soft underlying shales are left standing in picturesque, rectangular, cathedral-like masses, easily recognizable ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price


Words linked to "Cretaceous" :   period, Mesozoic, Age of Reptiles, Mesozoic era, geological period, chalk


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