cretaceous

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  • Adjective:
    abounding in chalk
    of or relating to the Cretaceous geologic era

Word Origin

cretaceous (adj.)
1670s, "chalky," from Latin cretaceus "chalk-like," from creta "chalk." As a geological period (with a capital C-), it was first used 1832. The extensive chalk beds of southeastern England were laid down during the Cretaceous.

Example

1. That means that our record of balaur is restricted to the very end of the cretaceous .
2. One confounding factor is that the late cretaceous was also a period of great volcanic activity .
3. Longhu mountain , located in the xinjiang basin , records the geological evolution of the cretaceous period .
4. While in australia , she sampled bones from 18 different dinosaurs that lived in the antarctic circle during the early cretaceous period .
5. That date marks one of five recognised mass extinctions in history ( the end of the cretaceous was another ) .

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