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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

upper : Pertaining to rocks or strata that are normally above those of earlier formations of the same subdivision of rocks. ... The initial letter of the term is capitalized to indicate a formal subdivision ... and is lowercased to indicate an informal subdivision ...  2, record 1, English, - Upper%20Cretaceous

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Le crétacé est le plus souvent subdivisé en inférieur et supérieur, mais une subdivision en trois séries(crétacé inférieur, moyen et supérieur) paraît se justifier.  2, record 1, French, - Cr%C3%A9tac%C3%A9%20sup%C3%A9rieur

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Les intrusions granitiques des Carpates méridionales sont du Crétacé supérieur [...]  3, record 1, French, - Cr%C3%A9tac%C3%A9%20sup%C3%A9rieur

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Une flore (ou une faune) fossile provenant du crétacé supérieur est dite «supracrétacée», alors que celle qui provient du crétacé inférieur est qualifiée de «infracrétacée».  4, record 1, French, - Cr%C3%A9tac%C3%A9%20sup%C3%A9rieur

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

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The crude bitumen reserves of the Peace River area occur in the Bluesky and Gething Formation of Lower Cretaceous age.  4, record 2, English, - Lower%20Cretaceous%20age

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The Early Cretaceous (timestratigraphic name) or the Lower Cretaceous (logstratigraphic name), is the earlier of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous Period. It began about 146 million years ago.  2, record 2, English, - Lower%20Cretaceous%20age

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Cretaceous: In the Standard Global Chronostratigraphic Scale, the upper system of the Mesozoic Erathem (above the Jurassic and below the Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Erathem), also the time duing which those rocks were formed, thought to have covered the span of time between about 135 to 145 and 65 million years ago.  5, record 2, English, - Lower%20Cretaceous%20age

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lower: The initial letter of the term is capitalized to indicate a formal subdivision [Lower Cretaceous] and is lowercased to indicate an informal subdivision [lower Cretaceous].  5, record 2, English, - Lower%20Cretaceous%20age

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 3 OBS

Lower Cretaceous age: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.  6, record 2, English, - Lower%20Cretaceous%20age

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Division inférieure (plus ancienne) de la période du Crétacé.  4, record 2, French, - Cr%C3%A9tac%C3%A9%20inf%C3%A9rieur

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Le crétacé est le plus souvent subdivisé en inférieur et supérieur, mais une subdivision en trois séries(crétacé inférieur, moyen et supérieur) paraît se justifier.  6, record 2, French, - Cr%C3%A9tac%C3%A9%20inf%C3%A9rieur

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Une flore (ou une faune) fossile provenant du Crétacé inférieur est dite «infracrétacée» alors que celle qui provient du Crétacé supérieur est qualifiée de «supracrétacée».  7, record 2, French, - Cr%C3%A9tac%C3%A9%20inf%C3%A9rieur

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 OBS

crétacé inférieur; âge infracrétacé : termes en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.  7, record 2, French, - Cr%C3%A9tac%C3%A9%20inf%C3%A9rieur

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Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A fault-bounded body of rock of regional extent, characterized by a geologic history different from that of contiguous terranes.  3, record 3, English, - terrane

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The steeply dipping tabular masses of magnetite form the crests of ridges that rise ... above the surrounding terrane.  4, record 3, English, - terrane

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"Terrane" is ... a fault-bounded tectonic unit of regional extent which ... is thought to be far-travelled: hence, allochthonous, displaced, exotic or suspect terrane. "Terrain" should be employed more generally to describe a region characterized by distinctive geomorphological or geological attributes without implication that it is far-travelled.  5, record 3, English, - terrane

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terrane: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.  6, record 3, English, - terrane

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Metamorphosed terrane.  4, record 3, English, - terrane

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Étendue de terre dont l’histoire géologique diffère de façon significative de celle des formations environnantes.  3, record 3, French, - terrane

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Le Domaine intramontagneux comporte trois grands terranes composés de roches sédimentaires et volcaniques marines qui datent du Paléozoïque supérieur au Mésozoïque moyen. Ces roches reposent sous des biseaux clastiques autochtones, d’âge jurassique et crétacé, et sous des roches sédimentaires et volcaniques généralement horizontales, d’âge tertiaire.  4, record 3, French, - terrane

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Des amas tabulaires de magnétite fortement inclinés forment le sommet de crêtes qui s’élèvent [...] au dessus du terrain environnant.  2, record 3, French, - terrane

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terrane : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.  5, record 3, French, - terrane

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Terrain métamorphisé.  2, record 3, French, - terrane

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Record 4,  Textual support,  English

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Basalt volcanic centers in the southern Great Basin are most common in: (1) ring-fracture zones of cauldron complexes; (2) rift grabens that cut cauldron complexes; and (3) rift grabens outside volcanic source areas.  4, record 4, English, - cauldron%20complex

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The rhyolites, which were previously mapped as Eocene, are reinterpreted to be part of a previously unrecognized mid-Cretaceous cauldron subsidence complex.  5, record 4, English, - cauldron%20complex

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cauldron complex; cauldron subsidence complex: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.  6, record 4, English, - cauldron%20complex

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Les rhyolites, antérieurement cartographiées comme datant de l'Éocène, sont réinterprétées comme faisant partie d’un complexe de cuvettes d’effondrement auparavant non reconnues et qui dateraient du Crétacé moyen.  1, record 4, French, - complexe%20de%20cuvettes%20d%27effondrement

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complexe formé par subsidence en chaudron : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.  3, record 4, French, - complexe%20de%20cuvettes%20d%27effondrement

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Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The west margin of the stable craton, termed Ancestral North America, was long-lived, from its rift inception in the Mid-Proterozoic to the Mesozoic ( - 1500 to -400 Ma), and comprised a passive margin setting with a deep miogeocline.  2, record 5, English, - rift%20inception

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rift inception: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.  3, record 5, English, - rift%20inception

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

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Suivant les auteurs, le début du rifting pourrait se situer entre le Permien supérieur et le Jurassique moyen et sa fin entre le Jurassique et le Crétacé inférieur à moyen.  2, record 5, French, - commencement%20du%20rifting

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commencement du rifting : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.  3, record 5, French, - commencement%20du%20rifting

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Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Postorogenic mid-Cretaceous quartz monzonite stock.  1, record 6, English, - mid%2DCretaceous

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Stock de monzonite quartzique postorogénique du Crétacé moyen.  1, record 6, French, - du%20Cr%C3%A9tac%C3%A9%20moyen

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Record 7,  Textual support,  English

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Oursin irrégulier à test cordiforme, avec ambulacre impair dans un sillon, très répandu dans le Crétacé inférieur et moyen.  1, record 7, French, - toxaster

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Record 8,  Textual support,  English

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Oursin irrégulier, répandu dans le Crétacé inférieur et moyen.  1, record 8, French, - pygaulus

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Record 9,  Textual support,  English

Record 9,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Ordre d’oiseaux coureurs fossiles [...], propres au Crétacé moyen du Kansas.  1, record 9, French, - odontolques

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Record 10,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 OBS

However, the best known of Cretaceous birds is a very distinct type, Hesperornis (...), which uniquely combines primitive and specialized characters.  2, record 10, English, - Hesperornis

Record 10,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Oiseau fossile de la craie du Kansas(Crétacé moyen).  2, record 10, French, - hesperornis

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Record 11,  Textual support,  English

Record 11,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 CONT

La séquence la plus jeune, la séquence 3, date surtout du Crétacé et du Tertiaire(environ 140 à 3 Ma) et a été déposée pendant et après la création de l'océan Arctique adjacent, soit le bassin Canada. Elle est la conséquence d’une autre fraction de la croûte terrestre qui créa les conditions géologiques de la marge arctique actuelle qui commença à se former au moyen Jurassique et surtout au début du Crétacé.  1, record 11, French, - conditions%20g%C3%A9ologiques

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Record 12,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 OBS

The geologic epoch between the Upper and Lower Cretaceous, beginning approximately 120,000,000 years ago.  1, record 12, English, - Middle%20Cretaceous

Record 12,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Crétacé moyen(compris entre l'inférieur, ou ancien, et le supérieur, ou récent.)  1, record 12, French, - m%C3%A9socr%C3%A9tac%C3%A9

Record 12,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 13,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

A genus (...) comprising Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopods that have all the whorls coiled in an involute spiral except the last which is straight for a distance and then bent back toward the coiled part.  1, record 13, English, - Scaphites

Record 13,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Ammonite "déroulée" dont la coquille, d’abord en spirale, se développe en une partie droite, plus arquée. Ce genre est très répandu dans le Crétacé moyen et supérieur.  1, record 13, French, - scaphites

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Record 14,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 OBS

A foraminifer belonging to the family Orbitolinidae and characterized by a relatively large conical test ranging from a high pointed cone to a broad shield or disc. Their stratigraphic range is Lower Cretaceous to Eocene.  1, record 14, English, - orbitolinid

Record 14,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Foraminifère imperforé, conique et à base ronde, concave, très répandu dans le Crétacé inférieur et moyen à faciès récifal.  1, record 14, French, - orbitoline

Record 14,  Textual support,  Spanish