Chazy Epoch - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: chazy epochChazy epoch
An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system so named from a township in Clinton Co New York See the Diagram under Geology...
Epoch
A fixed point of time established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence as the epoch of the creation the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era...
Epochal
Belonging to an epoch of the nature of an epoch...
Cincinnati epoch
An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati Ohio The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York...
Epoch, or epocha
Epoch, or epocha [fr. Gk., a pause], the time at which a new computation is begun; the time whence dates are numbered.A period of time marked by distinctive featured or noteworthy events, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 556....
Gregorian epoch
Gregorian epoch, the time from which the Gregorian calendar or computation dates, i.e., from the year 1582. See CALENDAR....
Niagara period
A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system embracing the Medina Clinton and Niagara epoch The rocks of the Niagara epoch mostly limestones are extensively distributed and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale See Chart of Geology...
Bonnet rouge
The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch hence a revolutionist a Red Republican...
Chemung period
A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America so named from the Chemung River along which the rocks are well developed It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs See the Diagram under Geology...
Epi
A prefix meaning upon beside among on the outside above over It becomes ep before a vowel as in epoch and eph before a Greek aspirate as in ephemeral...
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