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Cambrian \Cam"bri*an\, a. (Geog.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development ...
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The Cambrian ( or ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, lasting from to million years ago (mya) and was succeeded by the Ordovician . Its subdivisions, and indeed its base, are somewhat in flux. The period was established (as “Cambrian ...
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Ediacaran organisms were devoured or outcompeted by the lither and more sophisticated animals of the Cambrian period.
He was strangely convinced that the marking was the print of some bulky, unknown, and radically unclassifiable organism of considerably advanced evolution, notwithstanding that the rock which bore it was of so vastly ancient a date - Cambrian if not actually pre-Cambrian - as to preclude the probable existence not only of all highly evolved life, but of any life at all above the unicellular or at most the trilobite stage.
Besides his connection with the Cambrian, it gives details of his many other activities, including his representation of Cardigan Boroughs in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1885, and on the merging of the boroughs into the county, at that date, for Cardiganshire till 1886, when he was defeated on becoming an opponent of Mr.
He was born at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, and is both by birth and training a thorough Cambrian.
In this reckoning it should be noted that no account is taken of those great intervals of unrecorded time, such as elapsed between the close of the Laurentian and the beginning of the Cambrian periods.
Empty platforms rushed past, their names in title: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic.
They were made from originals in the Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Tartar, Tibetian, Chinese, Mandchou, Russian, Malo-Russian, Polish, Finnish, Anglo-Saxon, Ancient Norse, Suabian, German, Dutch, Danish, Ancient Danish, Swedish, Ancient Irish, Irish, Gaelic, Ancient British, Cambrian British, Greek, Modern Greek, Latin, Provencal, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Rommany.
Name a creature, from a nematode worm to Cameron Diaz, and they all use architecture first created in the Cambrian party.
Also instrumental in helping revisions were the discoveries of two further early Cambrian sites, one in Greenland and one in China, plus more scattered finds, which between them yielded many additional and often better specimens.
She had seen it in the plodding but graceful tread of the dinosaurs, in the skittering of trilobites in the warm shallows of Cambrian seas, in the flutter of ancient birds too new to their wings to even dream of flight.
The day the Snark sailed into Suva, in the Fijis, we made out the Cambrian going out.
And the day the Cambrian arrived at Tulagi, we sailed from Penduffryn, a dozen miles away.
Into his hand he put fourteen sovereigns and requested him to go on board the Cambrian and buy Captain Lewes off.
Had he, or any of his men, guided the marines, he could have looked for bloody reprisals as soon as the Cambrian weighed anchor.
The issue arose when the Reverend Adam Sedgwick of Cambridge claimed for the Cambrian period a layer of rock that Roderick Murchison believed belonged rightly to the Silurian.