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Etymology Of Period Names

Subject : history
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1. Stretch - Platform covers expanded






2. Ref. the banded iron formations






3. Region in Russia where rocks from this period were first identified






4. Cold-making - In this period all the Earth froze over






5. Coal - Global coal beds were laid in this period






6. 'Fourth' - This was initially deemed the 'fourth' period after the now-obsolete 'primary' - 'secondary' and 'tertiary' periods.






7. Triad - In Germany this period forms three distinct layers






8. Narrow - Much orogeny - which survives as narrow metamorphic belts






9. 'Ancient born'






10. Tribe in north Wales - where the rocks were first identified






11. Mountain range in the Alps in which rocks from this period were first identified






12. Much lava flowed






13. Stretch - Platform covers expanded






14. Region in Russia where rocks from this period were first identified






15. Narrow - Much orogeny - which survives as narrow metamorphic belts






16. Mountain range - Much orogeny in this period's latter half






17. Tribe in north Wales - where the rocks were first identified






18. Ref. the banded iron formations






19. Cold-making - In this period all the Earth froze over






20. Place in Australia where the Ediacaran biota fossils were found






21. Steady - Continents became stable cratons






22. Tribe in south Wales - where the rocks were first identified






23. 'Ancient born'






24. Place in Australia where the Ediacaran biota fossils were found






25. County in England in which rocks from this period were first identified






26. Stretch - The continental crust stretched as Rodinia broke up






27. Wales - Ref. to the place in Great Britain where Cambrian rocks are best exposed






28. Cover - Platform covers developed or expanded






29. Nnew born'






30. 'Fourth' - This was initially deemed the 'fourth' period after the now-obsolete 'primary' - 'secondary' and 'tertiary' periods.






31. More chalk formed in this period than any other






32. Cover - Platform covers developed or expanded






33. Tribe in south Wales - where the rocks were first identified






34. County in England in which rocks from this period were first identified






35. Steady - Continents became stable cratons






36. More chalk formed in this period than any other






37. Mountain range - Much orogeny in this period's latter half






38. Coal - Global coal beds were laid in this period






39. Nnew born'






40. Much lava flowed






41. Stretch - The continental crust stretched as Rodinia broke up






42. Mountain range in the Alps in which rocks from this period were first identified






43. Triad - In Germany this period forms three distinct layers






44. Wales - Ref. to the place in Great Britain where Cambrian rocks are best exposed