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EPOQUE CARBONIFERE [6 records]

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Record 1 2011-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oceanography
  • Toponymy
DEF

The ancient ocean that existed between about 700 and 225 million years ago.

OBS

The rocks of Britain and Ireland, which date from between 600 and 400 million years ago, owe their origin - according to accepted theory - to the growth, filling and final contraction of an ocean known as the Iapetus. Some geologists are now challenging this view, suggesting that this "proto-Atlantic", which they once thought separated much of what is now the Americas from Europe, may be as mythical as the Greek god after whom it is named.

OBS

The Iapetus Ocean is often referred to as "Proto-Atlantic Ocean" and was located between Euromerica and Gondwanaland.

OBS

Iapetus; proto-Atlantic: Dr. Kalkreuth, Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology, Calgary.

OBS

Iapetus: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Océanographie
  • Toponymie
DEF

Océan qui existait à l'époque du Carbonifère et du Permien, avant que l'Eurafrique n’ entre en collision avec l'Amérique du Nord.

OBS

Iapetus; océan Japet; japétien : termes en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Geology
  • Chronology
DEF

The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian periods combined ranging from about 345 to about 280 million years ago ...

CONT

Appalachian orogen. ... porphyry deposits were first developed in this region during the Cambrian and Ordovician and later in the Devonian and Carboniferous.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Géologie
  • Chronologie
DEF

Période de l’ère primaire ou paléozoïque comprise entre le Dévonien et le Permien.

CONT

La grande période de formation de la houille est le Carbonifère. Mais il s’en est formé postérieurement, au Secondaire et au Tertiaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
  • Geología
  • Cronología
DEF

Cuarto y penúltimo período de la era paleozoica o primaria, posterior al devónico y anterior al pérmico.

OBS

De una duración de 65 millones de años.

OBS

Los geólogos norteamericanos subdividen el carbonífero en misisipiense (carbonífero inferior) y pensilvaniense (carbonífero superior). En Europa se distinguen tres pisos: dinantiense (inferior), westfaliense (medio) y estefaniense (superior).

OBS

Pese a que una de las fuentes citadas escribe los nombres de los períodos geológicos con minúscula, el Diccionario de dudas de la Real Academia Española señala que tales sustantivos deben escribirse con mayúscula.

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Record 3 1978-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

They appear in early Mississippian horizons and had already reached and passed their time of major development by the end of the Carboniferous. There were snakelike astopods, Dolichosoma and Ophiderpeton; numerous nectridians, including "horned" forms such as Keraterpeton, and the elongate Urocordylus (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Amphibien stégocéphale, de l'époque carbonifère, ayant la forme d’un lézard à très longue queue, et dont les vertèbres ont des apophyses épineuses crénelées.

Spanish

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Record 4 1978-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

A suborder of Stegocephalia (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Sous-ordre d’amphibiens stégocéphales, comprenant plusieurs familles, dont les genres principaux sont(...) tous de l'époque carbonifère ou permienne.

Spanish

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Record 5 1978-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

an amphibian of the order, subclass, or other division Lepospondyli.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Sous-ordre d’amphibiens stégocéphales, dont les corps vertébraux, en forme d’étuis, logent la notochorde.(Ce sont des animaux de petite taille, de l'époque carbonifère et permienne. Ils offraient l'aspect général d’un salamandre.).

Spanish

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Record 6 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
OBS

Lycopodiales. Ordre de plantes ptéridophytes. Il y a, selon les espèces, une ou deux sortes de spores. Cet ordre [...] a eu un grand développement à l'époque carbonifère[...]

Spanish

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