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Definition of Lower carboniferous period
1. Noun. From 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects.
Group relationships: Carboniferous, Carboniferous Period
Generic synonyms: Geological Period, Period
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lower Carboniferous Period
Literary usage of Lower carboniferous period
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Historical Geology: With Special Reference to North America by William John Miller (1916)
"... CHAPTER X THE MISSISSIPPIAN (LOWER CARBONIFEROUS) PERIOD ORIGIN OF NAME,
SUBDIVISIONS, ETC. FORMERLY the Carboniferous period included all of what, ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"These great thicknesses, especially of limestone, bespeak the great duration of
the Lower Carboniferous period. 2500 feet of limestone, accumulating at the ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"These great thicknesses, especially of limestone, bespeak the great duration of
the Lower Carboniferous period. 2500 feet of limestone, accumulating at the ..."
4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"These great thicknesses, especially of limestone, bespeak the great duration of
the Lower Carboniferous period. 2500 feet of limestone, accumulating at the ..."
5. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"... part of southern Scotland in the long ages that elapsed between the termination
of the Lower Carboniferous period and the close of the Tertiary ages. ..."
6. The Geology of Allegany County by Cleophas Cisney O'Harra (1900)
"THE GEOLOGY OF ALLEGANY COUNTY THE lower carboniferous period. In Allegany county
there is little apparent difference between the highest Devonian and the ..."
7. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"48 are shown some of the fossils of the Lower Carboniferous period. Reptiles make
their first appearance in the Permian, at the close of the Carboniferous ..."
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