adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
period
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Seeds of Acer are rare compared with the leaves, which can be found in rocks dating back to the Cretaceous period .
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Then followed the long afternoon of the dinosaurs, the 71 million years of the Cretaceous period .
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The Cretaceous period in geology did not appear at a given stage in the development of the changes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anomalous ammonites: the Cretaceous genus Nipponites.
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Carboniferous sediments have been affected by low-amplitude Hercynian folding, Mesozoic rift faulting and Cretaceous inversion-related compression and fault re-activation.
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He says that dinosaur specimens from late Cretaceous rocks reveal low predator/prey ratios of from 3 to 5 percent.
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Many layers of decaying organic matter built up in Pennsylvania during the Cretaceous , and now it is all coal.
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One possible case of paired impacts has been widely discussed in connection with the Cretaceous extinction event.
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Similarly, the huge reptiles which dominated the land, sea, and even the air of the Cretaceous are all gone.
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Their fossils are commonest in Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks.
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Then followed the long afternoon of the dinosaurs, the 71 million years of the Cretaceous period.