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14 words match “PERMIAN”

PERMIAN a. 2 definitions
The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.
PERMIANS n.
A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia.
CARBONIFEROUS a.
coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen. -- Carboniferous formation (Geol.), the series of rocks (including sandstones, shales, limestones, and conglomerates, with beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous a…
DYAS n.
A name applied in Germany to the Permian formation, there consisting of two principal groups.
FINNS n.
ongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders. [Written also Fins.]
LABYRINTHODONTA n.
ing the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.
NEW a.
ame for the formation immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone. -- New style. See Style. -- New testament. See under Testament. -- New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere unt…
PALEOSAURUS n.
A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.
PELICOSAURIA n.
A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles from the Permian formation.
POECILITIC a.
Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors. [Also written poikilitic.]
PROTEROSAURUS n.
An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period. Called also Protosaurus.
THERIODONTIA n.
An extinct order of reptiles found in the Permian and Triassic formations in South Africa. In some respects they resembled carnivorous mammals. Called also Theromorpha.
TRIAS n.
The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
ZECHSTEIN n.
The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.