单词 | permo-carboniferous |
释义 | Permo-Carboniferousadj.n. Geology. A. adj. Esp. of certain Palaeozoic formations in the Czech Republic and North America: forming a transition between the Carboniferous and Permian systems. Also: relating to or including the Carboniferous and the Permian systems or periods. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > primary or Palaeozoic > Permo-carboniferous Permo-Carboniferous1874 hercynian1895 Permo-Pennsylvanian1919 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [adjective] > primary or Palaeozoic > Permo-carboniferous Permo-Carboniferous1874 Anthracolithic1891 Permo-Pennsylvanian1919 1874 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 30 217 Taking into consideration the great thickness of the Carboniferous in Nova Scotia and the large development of this Upper Permo-Carboniferous member, it would not be surprising that in this last we may have a chronological equivalent of part at least of the European Permian. 1897 Trans. Manch. Geol. Soc. 25 207 (heading) On the Permo-Carboniferous boundary. 1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods i. 5 The vast glaciation of Permo-Carboniferous times..marks the end of the Primary Palæozoic world. 1971 A. G. Smith in I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xv. 224/1 The distribution of Permo-Carboniferous tillites. 1985 Cambr. Encycl. Life Sci. xiv. 337/1 There was a marked difference between the food-chains in these Permo-Carboniferous tetrapod communities and those of later on. 1990 W. B. Harland et al. Geol. Time Scale 1989 iii. 46/1 In 1845 he [sc. R. Murchison] included rocks now known as Kungurian to Tartarian in age and for a time the underlying strata (Artinskian, etc.) were known as Permo-Carboniferous, i.e. intermediate between Carboniferous and Permian. B. n. The Carboniferous and Permian periods or systems considered jointly. ΚΠ 1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 861 There is an enormous thickness of these variegated beds, and..the lower portion is believed to belong to the era of the Permian, or Permo-carboniferous. 1955 G. G. Woodford tr. M. Gignoux Stratigr. Geol. v. 156 The great variety of facies of the Permo-Carboniferous in Europe and the harmonious way in which they can be grouped make of this system, seen as a whole, a magnificent illustration of stratigraphic synthesis. 2002 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 12567 Earth history was punctuated during the Permo-Carboniferous (300–250 million years (Myr) ago) by the longest and most severe glaciation of the entire Phanerozoic Eon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1874 |
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