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词汇 cambrian
释义 Cambrian
adjective
uk /ˈkæm.bri.ən/ us /ˈkæm.bri.ən/

Cambrianadjective (TIME)


geology specialized
from or referring to the period of time between about 543 and 490 million years ago, in which many different types of invertebrates (= animals with no back bone) first appeared: 寒武纪的(寒武纪,距今约5.43亿至4.9亿年前的地质时期,无脊椎动物开始大量出现。)
These rocks date from the middle of the Cambrian era.
They are already present in early Cambrian rocks.
Now nobody can deny that life back in the Cambrian era was already extremely varied.
When we consider another event of the Cambrian period, an interesting parallel emerges.
The evidence fitted, but there was something of a gap between the first eye and the Cambrian explosion event.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geology - general words
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anticline
apophysis
auriferous
biozone
carboniferous
continental plate
geologically
geomorphic
gully erosion
henge
Holocene
Permian
petrographic
petrographically
petrography
petrological
Precambrian
rockfall
syncline

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Cambrianadjective (WELSH)


used in place names to mean Welsh:
The Cambrian Coast stretches from Cardigan in the south to Harlech and Porthmadog in the north.
the Cambrian Mountains
The Gallery is on Cambrian Place in Swansea.
The Talyllyn Railway was built to connect the slate quarries above Abergynolwyn with the Cambrian Railway at Towyn.
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Places and locations
anatopism
coign of vantage
core
crime scene
deliver something to someone/somewhere
direction
hill
locus
madding
makerspace
Mecca
multi-location
retroperitoneal
retroperitoneally
scene
situation
spot
station
stronghold
subsite
Cambrian
noun[ S ]
 geology specializeduk /ˈkæm.bri.ən/ us /ˈkæm.bri.ən/
 the Cambrian
the Cambrian period (= the period between about 543 and 490 million years ago):
Highly complex plants and animals evolved in the Cambrian.
Conodonts are small fossils found in rocks ranging in age from the Cambrian to the Triassic.
They explored quarries where 500-million-year-old fossils from the Cambrian had been found.
The fossil jellyfish in the Burgess shale were thriving by the middle of the Cambrian.
Just before the Cambrian, the deep oceans were made oxygen rich and sulfide poor by an unusual spate of undersea landslides.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geology - general words
Anthropocene
anticline
apophysis
auriferous
biozone
carboniferous
continental plate
geologically
geomorphic
gully erosion
henge
Holocene
Permian
petrographic
petrographically
petrography
petrological
Precambrian
rockfall
syncline

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Prehistory
Specific periods of time
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