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Definition of Terranes
1. terrane [n] - See also: terrane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Terranes
Literary usage of Terranes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"Structural Geology treats of the mineral constituents of terranes; of the rocks
which the minerals form; and of the structure and general arrangement or ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"THE USE OF FOSSILS IN DETERMINING THE AGE OF GEOLOGIC terranes. ... age of separate
terranes the following rules are believed to be generally applicable. 1. ..."
3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"... Wm. Strieby: The Choctaw and Grayson terranes of the Arietina, FW Cragin:
Descriptions of new species of Invertebrate from the Comanche series in Texas, ..."
4. Revised Text-book of Geology by James Dwight Dana, William North Rice (1897)
"ROCK MASSES, OR terranes. The rocks above described are the material of which
the great rock masses, or terranes, of the globe consist. ..."
5. Revised Text-book of Geology by James Dwight Dana, William North Rice (1897)
"ROCK MASSES, OR terranes. The rocks above described are the material of which
the great rock masses, or terranes, of the globe consist. ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"... Whenever the attempt is made to determine the relative geologic age of separate
terranes the following rules are believed to be generally applicable. 1. ..."
7. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1907)
"TERTIARY terranes OF NEW MEXICO. BY CHARLES R. KEYES. Deposits of Tertiary age
are extensively developed in New Mexico. The greatest thicknesses are found ..."
8. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1907)
"TERTIARY terranes OF NEW MEXICO. BY CHARLES R. KEYES. Deposits of Tertiary age
are extensively developed in New Mex- The greatest thicknesses are found in ..."
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