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Definition of Fossiliferous
1. Adjective. Bearing or containing fossils. "Fossiliferous strata"
Definition of Fossiliferous
1. a. Containing or composed of fossils.
Definition of Fossiliferous
1. Adjective. Containing fossils. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fossiliferous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Fossiliferous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossiliferous
Literary usage of Fossiliferous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1867)
"The brick-red clay on which the fossiliferous deposit rested, ... Nor was there
any material change in the nature of the fossiliferous deposits : the same ..."
2. Elements of Geology by Charles Lyell (1839)
"PRIMARY fossiliferous STRATA. Primary fossiliferous or Transition Strata—Term "
Grauwacke"—Silurian Group—Upper Silurian and Fossils—Lower Silurian and ..."
3. A Manual of Elementary Geology: Or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1855)
"WE come next in the descending order to the most ancient of the primary fossiliferous
rocks, that series which comprises the greater part of the strata ..."
4. Elements of Geology by Charles Lyell (1845)
"WE have now arrived in the descending order at those more ancient sedimentary
rocks, which I have called the Primar)' fossiliferous (see p. ..."
5. Practical Geology and Mineralogy: With Instructions for the Qualitative by Joshua Trimmer (1842)
"fossiliferous and Non-fossiliferous Strata. As rocks in general admit of a ...
fossiliferous rocks are those which, taken as a whole, contain organic ..."
6. A Geological Manual by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1832)
"SECTION X. LOWEST fossiliferous GROUP. These alternations or mixtures of substances,
which are partly mechanical and partly the result of chemical action, ..."
7. Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1840)
"Consolidation of fossiliferous strata—Some deposits originally solid ...
This subject may be considered, first, in reference to the fossiliferous strata ..."
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