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cretaceous

[ UK /kɹɛtˈe‍ɪʃəs/ ]
[ US /kɹɪˈteɪʃɪs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. abounding in chalk

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  • The first cycle initiated in the early Paleocene and represents a transition from Cretaceous marine turbidites and shales to subaerial fluvial sandstones and conglomerates.
  • However, early calapids in the Cretaceous were smaller in size and are not considered as major predators of bivalves and gastropods.
  • The Los Zorros property covers the entire breadth of a regional anticlinorium in an area that is the locus of younger intrusive activity which intruded up through the fold-deformed lower Cretaceous section of volcaniclastic, siliclastic, and limestone formations and intrusive diorite sills. StreetInsider.com News Articles
  • These are cut by intrusions of late Cretaceous-early Tertiary (Laramide) age, ranging from tonalite to granodiorite in composition. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • The true giants did not arrive until the middle of the Cretaceous period.
  • More specifically, there are Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene marine and Oligocene and Plio-Pleistocene nonmarine sedimentary rocks. Santa Monica Mountains (Bailey)
  • Recent restudy of the inclusions in that collection indicate that the material is Cretaceous, as based on the presence of Serphitidae and several other families of insects restricted to the Cretaceous.
  • The Uhangri sauropod ichnites are the first Late Cretaceous manus-only sauropod trackways and are among the few Late Cretaceous sauropod tracks.
  • At some point, Leaellynasaura, a Lower Cretaceous hypsilophodontid from Victoria, Australia, was described as a carnivore when it, like all hypsilophodontids, is actually an herbivore. Entry #1,909
  • During Early Cretaceous times, there was a significant period of plutonism and crustal growth in the magmatic arc.
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