Definition of Precambrian period

1. Noun. The eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon; from about 3,800 million years ago until 544 million years ago.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Precambrian Period

Prato
Praunus
Pravachol
Praxiteles
Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children
Pre-Cana
Pre-Greek
Pre-Raphaelite
Pre-Raphaelites
Preacher
Preakness
Precambrian
Precambrian aeon
Precambrian eon
Precambrian period
Preface
Prekmurian
Prelone
Prem
Premier League
Premiership
Premium Bond
Premonstrant
Premonstrants
Premonstratensian
Premonstratensians
Prenanthes
Prenanthes alba
Prenanthes purpurea

Literary usage of Precambrian period

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Ghana Geological Survey (1898)
"precambrian period IX. GEOLOGICAL HISTORY The sequence of events during this period commenced with the deposition of phyllites and greywackes in a ..."

2. Notes on the Rocks and Minerals of Michigan: To Accompany the Loan by Dept. of geology, Michigan (1905)
"... ROCKS OF THE precambrian period. HURONIAN ROCKS. The Huronian rocks contain the enormous deposits of iron ore which have made the Lake Superior region ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... how much more rapidly and efficaciously did the principle operate in the precambrian period ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... how much more rapidly and efficaciously did the principle operate in the precambrian period, after the initial steps in the divergence of types from the ..."

5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1898)
"... how much more rapidly and efficaciously did the principle operate in the precambrian period, after the initial steps in the divergence of types from the ..."

6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"... to the evolution of these cephalopods in the Mesozoic, how much more rapidly and efficaciously did the principle operate in the precambrian period, ..."

7. Agricultural Geology by John Edward Marr (1903)
"In addition to this great development of these very ancient rocks, we find representatives of the precambrian period cropping out in smaller patches further ..."

8. Canada 2002 by Wayne C. Thompson (2003)
"This undulating terrain is the last vestige of what was, during the Precambrian period, an imposing mountain massif. There are major metal deposits here. ..."

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