Carboniferous periodin a sentence
- More like ferns unscrolling — something old, carboniferous, but at the same time newborn, fragrant, verdant.† (source)
- They have the mystery of ferns that disappeared a million years ago into the coal of the carboniferous era.† (source)
- He jumped to the conclusion that this must be a forest of the Carboniferous Period.† (source)
- The scene seemed to belong to the ancient world of the carboniferous period, when the forms of plants were few, and of the fern kind; when there was neither bud nor blossom, nothing but a monotonous extent of leafage, amid which no bird sang.† (source)
- The whole history of the carboniferous period was written upon these gloomy walls, and a geologist might with ease trace all its diverse phases.† (source)
- Pliocene, miocene, eocene, cretaceous, jurassic, triassic, permian, carboniferous, devonian, silurian, or primitive was all one to me.† (source)
- [1] These animals belonged to a late geological period, the Pliocene, just before the glacial epoch, and therefore could have no connection with the carboniferous vegetation.† (source)