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subcarboniferous

subcarboniferous


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Subcarboniferous  \Sub*car`bon*if"er*ous\,  a.  (Geol.) 
  Of  or  pertaining  to  the  lowest  division  of  the  Carboniferous 
  formations  underlying  the  proper  coal  measures.  It  was  a 
  marine  formation  characterized  in  general  by  beds  of 
  limestone.  --  n.  The  Subcarboniferous  period  or  formation.