Sentence examples for geological era from inspiring English sources

It has even given its name to a geological era - the Wenlockian period.

This message adopted a more pedantic tone: "Dinosaurs are a paleontological life form from an ancient geological era, and our clerics are a paleontological life form from an ancient social era".

THE Permian Basin, named for the geological era in which much of it was formed, stretches across hundreds of miles of eastern New Mexico and western Texas, capped by the deceptively modest-looking cities of Midland and Odessa.

The rim of Endeavour — a 14-mile-wide depression that was carved out by an impact long ago — consists of rocks from an earlier geological era that the impact lifted up from below.

On Monday the International Geological Congress was advised to declare the start of a new geological era, the Anthropocene, which means that our tribe of "bloody ignorant apes" – in Samuel Beckett's pithy appellation – has officially taken control of the planet.

A look at the Age of Man: humans are now the dominant species, and have already begun to alter the planet so extensively some want to declare a new geological era.

You can think of this evolution in geological "eras".

Mr. Crumb named the set of vividly colored variations after geological eras.

One set consists of variations named after geological eras, with sea gull cries evoked in "Archeozoic".

The Anthropocene's usual encounters with previous geological eras involve drilling, quarrying and fracking, but these villagers have effectively put a pair of spark-plugs between them, creating a model for a future sustainably powered by the interaction of past and present, constancy and change, flood and drought.

In a separate building, there were more posters shoehorning geological eras into a young-Earth creationist story, along with a pretty impressive scale model of the ark, bigger than anything you've ever seen in a toy shop – more like a wooden container ship.