Sentence examples for terms tertiary from inspiring English sources

Classically, the Cenozoic Era was divided into the Tertiary and Quaternary periods, separated at the boundary between the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs (formerly set at 1.8 million years ago); however, by the late 20th century many authorities considered the terms Tertiary and Quaternary to be obsolete.

Further work by Lyell and Gérard-Paul Deshayes resulted in the term Tertiary being accepted as one of the fundamental divisions of geologic time.

The extensive review of the marine invertebrate fauna of the Paris Basin by Deshayes and Lyell not only made possible the formalization of the term Tertiary but also had a more far-reaching effect.

Once it was recognized that many of the rocks of the Paris Basin, London Basin, and parts of the Apennines apparently belonged to the same sequence by virtue of the similarity of their fossil content, Arduino's term Tertiary (proposed as part of his fourfold division of rock succession in the Tuscan Hills of Italy) began to be applied to all of these diverse locations.

The term tertiary did not originally evoke gender, but by the 13th century it usually referred to women, often of aristocratic background, who led a saintly life in a cenobitic setting but were inspired by humanitarian ideals rather than by a longing for sheer contemplation.

The term "tertiary structure" is often used as synonymous with the term fold.

The term 'Tertiary' was replaced by Paleogene and Neogene [ 105].

The overall relevance of the study and merit for publication might be termed "tertiary validity" of scientific data.

There is evidence that active pathological processes occur for weeks, months and years after a hypoxic-ischaemic insult; this has been termed tertiary brain injury.

The organization of B-cells, follicular dendritic cells, T-cells and high-endothelial venules into structures termed tertiary lymphoid structures have been detected in various types of cancer, where their presence is found to predict favourable outcome.

Several dinoflagellate lineages have taken the endosymbiotic process one step further, and replaced their peridinin-containing plastid of red algal origin with secondary plastids from other algae, in a process termed "tertiary endosymbiosis".