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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, a name proposed by T. S. Hunt for what he supposed to be the uppermost member of the Archæan system of Precambrian rocks. The Taconian series of Hunt is now known to be in part of Paleozoic age, and the term is no longer used. See
Taconic system , under system.
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