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TRIASSIC SYSTEM [4 records]

Record 1 2002-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
OBS

Bunter series : The lowest of the three series into which the rocks of the Triassic system of Western Europe are divided.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
OBS

Les Gaulois déjà faisaient chauffer des blocs d'argile salée pour extraire de la saumure, de précieux galets de sel.

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Chronology
DEF

The Permian System and the Triassic system considered together.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Chronologie
DEF

Ensemble constitué par les systèmes permien et triasique.

CONT

Époque du Permo-Trias : dépôts évaporitiques de sel, gypse, potasse, à travers le monde entier (Europe : Allemagne, Alsace, U.R.S.S.; Asie : Iran; Amérique du Nord : Texas).

CONT

[...] dans le cas du Bassin de Paris, [on trouve] au centre, une subsidence tectonique [...] qui a commencé assez rapidement au début du Permo-Trias pour ralentir ensuite.

CONT

Les minerais potassiques se rencontrent surtout dans les étages du Permotrias et du Tertiaire.

Spanish

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Record 3 1983-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

named from its threefold division in Germany, the first period of the Mesozoic era, thought to have covered the span of time between 225 and 195-190 million years ago.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 4 1983-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

in the secondary epoch, a system following the Triassic and preceding the Cretaceous.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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