tertiary

     

The Tertiary geological time interval covers roughly the time span between the emise of the non-avian dinosaurs and beginning of the most recent Ice Age, approximately 65 million to 1.8 million years ago.

Trivia about tertiary

  • Giovanni Arduino classified rocks oldest to newest as primary, secondary & this, a term still used
  • AskOxford.com tells us that this word is the missing one in the sequence primary, secondary... quaternary

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