triassic

• “It is the triassic formation, or the commencement of the mesozoic epoch, which has received the smallest inheritance from preceding ages.”

  Essays

• “Then something happened at the end of the triassic and they disappeared and the dinosaurs got their chance.”

  Best Behe takedown *ever* - The Panda's Thumb

• “Still missing a huge amount of terrestrial life, that 400 million years worth of giant dragon flies from the carboniferous, permian reptiles, mammal like reptiles from the triassic, ice age megafaunas, giant South American terror birds, and so on.”

  The Conscience of John Mark Reynolds Speaks... - The Panda's Thumb

• “It seems to have been multiplying at an exceptional speed in recent times; how had it acquired such amazing vitality while still in a primitive triassic form, and how had it remained entirely hidden until recently, existing, most likely, in extremely isolated geographic pockets?”

  The War with the Newts

• “If rock is the music of the future, give me the triassic era any day.”

  Archive 2006-10-29

• “Let me give you an example: In 1988 I was working in the Mineralogical Museum in Delft, which also holds holotypes of indonesian triassic foraminafera.”

  Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit

• “The marbles we have been hitherto considering belong to the older calcareous formations of Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and go down to the upper triassic and muschel-kalk limestones, and perhaps even to those of an older period.”

  Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

• “The rolling country east of this contained eruptive rocks—a porphyritic disbase, with zeolite, quartz, and agate of triassic age.”

  VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land

• “In the coal measures come the amphibia; and in the Permo-triassic strata, reptile-like mammals.”

  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata

• “The coal fields of North Carolina are confined to two limited areas or belts of triassic sandstone.”

  North Carolina and its Resources.

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