Typical Triassic lineages were mostly relicts from the latest Permian.
They are relicts of ancient mountains that were eroded and dissected by numerous streams.
The third environment occurs as relicts (residual landforms) in younger orogenic belts.
Walking past a petroglyph-etched rock, we noted the relicts of the Excelsior Stone Quarry (deceased: 1912).
Climates change and periodically impose one of the foregoing geomorphic systems on the relicts left by one of the others.
In western Zambia they are overlain by younger sandy deposits, relicts of a once more-extensive Kalahari desert.
Smaller relicts of Archean rocks in various stages of obliteration occur in many younger Proterozoic and Phanerozoic orogenic (mountain) belts.
With tangled roots spanning six feet and trunks approaching three feet in diameter, the weathered relicts were of a size seldom found among living South Florida buttonwood.
Merciless about himself, Sol is no more forgiving in his attitude toward the fellow relicts who wander about the locker room, with or without towels.
As she navigated the mirrored time warp of cut crystal, animal sculptures and rare chestnut paneling, Ms. LeRoy shared her memories of the restaurant's relicts.
In contrast, southern Europe, although incorporating such relicts as massifs of Paleozoic rocks, is essentially a youthful world, not yet fully fashioned, as evidenced by continuing seismic disturbances.
