Definitions | Carboniferous |
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- (geology) the Carboniferous period
adjective
- (geology) of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the lower, middle and upper Mississippian and lower, middle and upper Pennsylvanian epochs from about 345 to 280 million years ago, when coal was laid down
- of, or relating to carbon or coal
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