Defenition of the word geological period

• Defenition of the word geological period

  • a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
  • a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

Synonyms for the word geological period

• • period

Meronymys for the word geological period

• • epoch
  • era
  • geological era

Hyponyms for the word geological period

• • Age of Fishes
  • Age of Man
  • Cambrian
  • Cambrian period
  • Carboniferous
  • Carboniferous period
  • Cretaceous
  • Cretaceous period
  • Devonian
  • Devonian period
  • glacial epoch
  • glacial period
  • ice age
  • Jurassic
  • Jurassic period
  • Lower Carboniferous
  • Lower Carboniferous period
  • Missippian period
  • Mississippian
  • Ordovician
  • Ordovician period
  • Pennsylvanian
  • Pennsylvanian period
  • Permian
  • Permian period
  • Quaternary
  • Quaternary period
  • Silurian
  • Silurian period
  • Tertiary
  • Tertiary period
  • Triassic
  • Triassic period
  • Upper Carboniferous
  • Upper Carboniferous period

Hypernyms for the word geological period

• • geologic time
  • geological time

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