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Definition of Carboniferous period
1. Noun. From 345 million to 280 million years ago.
Group relationships: Paleozoic, Paleozoic Era
Terms within: Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvanian Period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous Period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous Period, Missippian Period, Mississippian
Generic synonyms: Geological Period, Period
Derivative terms: Carboniferous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carboniferous Period
Literary usage of Carboniferous period
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"THE MISSISSIPPIAN (EARLY CARBONIFEROUS) PERIOD. THE time from the dose of the
Devonian period to the end of t!> Paleozoic era was formerly regarded as a ..."
2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"Carboniferous period. Since the Carboniferous period, or that of the Coal-measures,
was a period largely of marshes, as it opened the land gradually became ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In western Europe the advent of the Carboniferous period was accompanied by the
production ... The close of the early Carboniferous period was. marked by an ..."
4. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1886)
"The Carboniferous period is but one of the three periods of this age. ...
The Carboniferous period, therefore, is probably not more than one-thirtieth part ..."
5. An Introduction to Historical Geology: With Special Reference to North America by William John Miller (1916)
"FORMERLY the Carboniferous period included all of what, in America at least, we
now call the Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Permian periods.1 In Europe ..."
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