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AGE PERMIEN [2 records]

Record 1 2006-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Chronology
DEF

Of or relating to the last major division of the Paleozoic marked by extensive glaciation in India, South Africa, South America, and Australia, by decline of the amphibians and increase of primitive reptiles, and by rocks consisting largely of red sandstone and shale.

CONT

The country rocks are carbonates and argillaceous sediments of the early and middle Palaezoic overlain by Carboniferous rocks with coals, Permian and a Triassic basic volcanic sequence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Chronologie
CONT

Des gisements permiens [...] sont exploités par l'U.R.S.S. dans le nord-ouest de l'Oural [...]

CONT

[...] le laccolite [...] d'âge oligocène interstratifié dans les grès permiens.

CONT

[...] le laccolite [...] perfore les formations permiennes.

CONT

On [...] trouve [les dacites] dans les terrains permiens aux environs de Saint-Raphaël [...]

CONT

[...] les nouveaux grès rouges [...] d'âge permien et triasique en Angleterre [...]

Spanish

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

[Dícese del] último período del Palezoico, de duración de 40 millones de años.

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Record 2 2004-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
  • Geology
DEF

The last period of the Paleozoic era after the Pennsylvanian), thought to have covered the span of time between 280 and 225 million years ago ...

OBS

Permian: Named after the Russian province of Perm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
  • Géologie
DEF

Dernière période de l'ère primaire ou paléozoïque.

OBS

Permien (de Perm, à l'ouest de l'Oural).

Spanish

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

Ultimo período del Palezoico, de duración de 40 millones de años.

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