Similar words: herbaceous, curvaceous, secretary, secretariat, nacreous, undersecretary, secretary of state, face off. Meaning: [krɪ'teɪʃəs] n. from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants. adj. 1. abounding in chalk 2. of or relating to or denoting the third period of the Mesozoic era.
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91. The prehistoric reptile lived in the Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago.
92. As fossil evidences show, the fossil of taxus were found in the upper Cretaceous period.
93. But nearly 100 million years ago relatives of modern snakes undulated through Cretaceous period waters aided by a paddlelike tail and dragging a pair of short, footless hind legs.
94. Colorado plateau, constituted by Cretaceous red sandstone, formed various sized canyons and cliffs through river force.
95. There exist three superposed manners of Jurassic and Cretaceous basins in space. They are titling superposition, superposed preservation and part superposition.
96. Argillaceous siltstone is a kind of soft rock, which is widespread during Cretaceous to Eogene in China.
97. In these regions the desert insects originated later, i. e. , in Cretaceous Period, and the insect fauna formed in Eocene Epoch of the early Tertiary Period.
98. Upper Cretaceous : Including the Sifangtai Formation — Minshui Formation, corresponding to the Cenonian — Maestrichtian.
99. For the first time, the algae laminae with strong fluorescence are found out in the Cretaceous source rocks through the research of organic petrology.
100. Gudian structure was formed in the late period in the deposition of Nenjiang series in Early Cretaceous, by the dray dueing the uplift of the hanging wall of the Gudian fault.
101. The sandstone-hosted copper deposits of Cretaceous age in the Chuxiong basin were closely related with the lower coaly formation, the middle cupriferous formation and upper gypsum-salt formation.
102. In the Q-F-L graph, the plotted points of quartz, feldspar and lithoclast contents of Cretaceous sandstone-mudstone cored from wells are mainly located in foreland basin area.
103. Reservoir rock of Jurassic and lower Cretaceous in Beishan Basin group is mainly feldspathic litharenite and lithic arkose, Secondly is lithic sandstone, Both mineral and textural maturity are poor.
104. From Cretaceous Period to Paleocene Eocene, subsidence and sedimentation area migrated gradually towards inside basin because the major thrust belts were piggyback and developed towards inside basin.
105. They are mainly limburgite and breccia like limburgite and intruded the Cretaceous red basins.
106. Corythosaurus lived 80 to 65 million years ago. That time was Cretaceous period.
107. Observations and ocean models suggest that the climate system and oceanic dynamics during the greenhouse Cretaceous were quite different from their present icehouse patterns.
108. Based on chorology, fossil records and dominant woody habit, the family may be considered as a fairly old one and probably originated in the Late Cretaceous or the Early Tertiary.
109. A member of the Dromaeosauridae of dinosaurs, it was a bird-like theropod dinosaur, which flourished during the Cretaceous Period.
110. The story takes place 6500 years ago in the Cretaceous period.
111. Any of various carnivorous dinosaurs of the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous Periods[sentencedict.com], similar to but smaller than the tyrannosaur.
112. On the southwestern margin of the basin there occur middle Yanshanian Late Triassic and Early Cretaceous coarse clastic molasse-like deposits and angular unconformity.
113. Albertosaurus lived 76 to 74 million years ago. That time was called the late Cretaceous period.
114. The asymmetry between north and south Kuqa basin filling sequences shows that the Cretaceous Kuga depression possesses the characteristics of forel and basins.
115. From late Cretaceous to Paleocene, it is the time of basin extruding, uplifting and denudation, therefore a larger angular unconformity formed between Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
116. Jurassic System entered oil - generating stage in Late Cretaceous Period, and entered oil - generating peak in Tertiary Period.Sentencedict.com
117. Multi - set of fan - delta , distributary channel and delta - front sand bodies of Jurassic and Cretaceous are favorible reservoirs.
118. The basin and the mountain were formed by Cenozoic rifting on the basis of the North China peneplain, which was formed in the Late Cretaceous.
119. The Cretaceous rhyolite - porphyry is the main parent rock Of the deposit , extending inNE - orientation.
120. Though the Cretaceous asteroid cleared the stage, mammals did not really get going until 10m years later, in the Eocene epoch.
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