What's the difference between devonian and geologic?

Devonian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system.
  • (n.) The Devonian age or formation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Modern lungfish are air-breathing nonmarine forms, yet their Devonian forebears were marine fish that did not breathe air.
  • (2) The Siluro-Devonian "explosive" colonization of land, and indeed the very evolution of plants, was possible only through such mutualistic partnerships-partnerships that were equipped to cope with the problems of desiccation and starvation associated with terrestrial existence.
  • (3) The diversity of tetrapods increased from the Devonian to the Permian, remained roughly constant during the Mesozoic, and then began to increase in the late Cretaceous, and continued to do so during the Tertiary.
  • (4) Sharks are living fossils that are indistinguishable morphologically from their Devonian ancestors of approximately equal to 400 million years ago.
  • (5) Photograph: University Museum of Zoology Cambridge “It does appear that if there had been a ‘gap’ it was much smaller than previously thought, and might have affected some groups less severely than others,” Clack told me, talking about the disappearance of many species at the end of the Devonian.
  • (6) This period marks the end of the Devonian, often referred to as the “age of fish”, and the beginning of the Carboniferous.
  • (7) – Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous … 'What will survive of us is love', wrote Philip Larkin.
  • (8) The dental plates of the Devonian lungfish Chirodipterus australis Miles (Osteichthyes; Dipnoi) are shown to have achieved their characteristic morphology by a growth process different from that assumed for the plates of genera such as Dipterus.
  • (9) Recent work on Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous terrestrial assemblages has provided plausible evidence for all major groups of extant fungi in the Paleozoic.
  • (10) Fossils dating from the time of origin of tetrapods in the Devonian offer the only hope of understanding the morphological innovations that led to tetrapods; morphological analysis of the "living fossils," the coelacanth and lungfish, only lends confusion.
  • (11) Here I report the discovery of the stapes of Acanthostega gunnari, from the Upper Devonian of east Greenland.
  • (12) Late Devonian, c 360 million years ago A messy prolonged climate change event, again hitting life in shallow seas very hard, killing 70% of species including almost all corals.
  • (13) Evolution of life coincides with the most rapid rate of rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration during Devonian time.
  • (14) Morphologically, sharks are living fossils that are remarkably similar to their Devonian ancestors of ca.
  • (15) These, together with the marginal teeth and ridges, have been interpreted as primitive characters of the dipnoan dentition shared with three other genera: the Devonian Uranlophus and Griphognathus and the Carboniferous to Permian Conchopoma.
  • (16) Devonian vertebrates include a wide range of endemic forms, which provide evidence of more than six distinct biostratigraphic assemblages in South China and five biogeographical realms.
  • (17) The 51-year-old Devonian mother of two was being wooed by Harold Tillman, the retail magnate who had recently bought the historic British Jaeger clothing brand, over a series of high teas at Claridge's.
  • (18) Further comparison of the results with similar experimental findings in members of other vertebrate classes supports the notion that several of these same pathways can be traced to even more remote ancestry, with some possibly as old as the entire vertebrate subphylum--dating from the early Devonian or before, perhaps 430 million years ago.
  • (19) The spatial arrangement of the vertical canals is already present in fossil ostracoderms, and is also exemplified in lampreys, the modern forms of once abundant agnathan species that populated the Silurian and Devonian oceans.
  • (20) A review of the vertebrates within the Silurian and Devonian of China suggests a more detailed picture of palaeobiogeographical distribution than previously possible.

Geologic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Geological

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
  • (2) The US Geological Survey estimated the waters in the Arctic contain about 90bn barrels of recoverable oil.
  • (3) The US Geological Survey said it was the biggest earthquake to hit Japan since officials began keeping records in the late 1800s and one of the biggest recorded in the world.
  • (4) "Autumn colours are very patchy and depend on regional variation in climate and differences in geology.
  • (5) A tentative analysis of the data with regard to the geological situation is presented.
  • (6) In December the US Geological Survey also warned that sea-level rise could be even worse than feared, as much as 1.5 metres by the end of this century, partly due to increased melting of the volume of water stored in glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland.
  • (7) The possible association between the geological nature of the soil, as related to radioactivity, and lung cancer occurrence has been explored in an Italian province.
  • (8) The authors relate the tentative measurement data on radon-222 concentrations in different buildings situated in the Ukrainian bedrock geological region.
  • (9) Europe is geologically resource poor [so] there is a lot of scope to try to move towards an economic development [model] that would be decoupled from the consumption of resources and move more towards the reuse of the resources we already have”, he says.
  • (10) A total of 435 United States Geological Survey and United States Forest Service workers in Alaska were studied for serologic evidence of past infections with four arboviruses known or suspected to be human pathogens.
  • (11) This is a big deal.” geology graphic He said that the scale and rate of change on measures such as CO2 and methane concentrations in the atmosphere were much larger and faster than the changes that defined the start of the holocene.
  • (12) The determination of platinum in geological samples by this method has been compared with an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometric method.
  • (13) There are 4,000 SSSIs, described by government officials as the “best of our wildlife, geological and physiographical heritage” in England.
  • (14) ID7720613 Restaurante da Praia, Praia da Arrifana, Algarve Stewed octopus with sweet potato is the speciality at this restaurant, which sits alone at the bottom of the steep access road that winds down to one of Portugal’s most beautiful and geologically interesting beaches.
  • (15) The northerly region has become a new frontier for exploration since global warming caused ice to melt, oil escalated in value to its current $114 a barrel and the US Geological Survey concluded that almost a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves may lie in the Arctic.
  • (16) The National Geological Survey recorded a seismic event of 2.1 magnitude.
  • (17) When I ask him how his background in geology is being used here, he tells me of his fieldwork at the Grand Canyon.
  • (18) Prof Hugh Sinclair, a specialist in surface geology and one of 59 Productions’ advisers, said he felt frustrated that there was no statue to Hutton anywhere in Edinburgh, despite the huge significance of his work.
  • (19) These revisions suggest sea-level rises could easily top a metre by 2100 - a figure that is backed by the US Geological Survey, which this year warned that they could reach as much as 1.5 metres.
  • (20) Many of the contemporary correlations between geological factors and human behavior are also apparent within historical data.

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