The Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, often referred to as the Cretaceous – Tertiary extinction event, occurred approximately 65. 5 million years ago ( Ma ) at the end of the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period.

Additionally, all six turtle families in existence at the end of the Cretaceous survived into the Tertiary and are represented by current species.

Pollen samples recovered near a fossilized hadrosaur femur recovered in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone at the San Juan River indicate that the animal lived during the Tertiary, approximately 64. 5 Ma ( about 1 million years after the K – Pg extinction event ).

For example, the discovery by Luis Alvarez and Walter Alvarez of an iridium-rich layer at the Cretaceous – Tertiary boundary made asteroid impact and volcanism the most favored explanations for the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

Climates during the Tertiary slowly cooled, starting off in the Paleocene with tropical-to-moderate worldwide temperatures and ending before the first extensive glaciation at the start of the Quaternary.

Pyrope and spessartine gemstones have been recovered from the Sloan diamondiferous kimberlites in Colorado, from the Bishop Conglomerate and in a Tertiary age lamprophyre at Cedar Mountain in Wyoming.

Finally, in the Tertiary Period (~ 65 million to ~ 1. 8 million years ago ), the mountain chains that today comprise the Atlas were uplifted as the land masses of Europe and Africa collided at the southern end of the Iberian peninsula.

Crystalline rocks crop out at several capes ; Cretaceous limestones, containing an abundant and specific fauna of gigantic ammonites, occur at Dui on the west coast ; and Tertiary conglomerates, sandstones, marls and clays, folded by subsequent upheavals, are found in many parts of the island.

Tertiary education is provided at the University Centre Folkestone, which opened in September 2007 and specialises in Performing Arts and subjects relating to the creative industries.

Before the Tertiary, when the sea level was much lower than at present, the Swan River curved around to the north of Rottnest Island, and disgorged itself into the Indian Ocean slightly to the north and west of Rottnest.

This region at the time would have had a Mediterranean climate due to the proximity of the Tethys Sea, which covered parts of present-day Tibet and Xinjiang into the early Tertiary period.

Tertiary relicts can be found at the southern part of Swabian Jura.

Tertiary education is rarely free, but the costs vary widely: tuition at elite private colleges often exceeds $ 200, 000 for a four-year program, although financial aid may be significant.

* Lime fossils have been found in the Tertiary formations of Grinnell Land, Canada, at 82 ° N latitude, and in Spitzbergen, Norway.

* International Flows of Mobile Students at the Tertiary Level by UNESCO

The NZ Tertiary Education Commission's first Performance Based Research Fund ranking exercise in 2003 — equivalent to the UK's RAE — ranked the quality of Lincoln University's research at sixth place.

To the observations of Torell on glacial phenomena Nordenskiöld added the discovery at Bell Sound of remains of Tertiary plants, and on the return of the expedition he received the appointment of professor and curator of the mineralogical department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History ( Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet ).

The archaeologist William Boyd Dawkins found MacRitchie's views also appealing, since in his Early Man in Britain and His Place in the Tertiary Period ( 1880 ) he considered Upper Paleolithic culture across Europe ( including Britain ) to have been founded by a proto-Eskimo or Lapp race, a view at the time which was popularised after the discovery of " Chancelade Man ", in southwestern France by Leo Testut in 1889.

He also attended lectures ( MA Politics ) at Macquarie University but did not complete his degree except for the Theological Tertiary Course ( L. Th ).

However, the story of She is firmly ensconced in what fantasy theorists call ' primary world reality ', with the lost kingdom of Kôr, the realm ruled by the supernatural She, a fantastic " Tertiary World " at once directly part of and at the same time indirectly set apart from normative " primary " reality.

Flint was educated at Twickenham Girls School ( the school transferred to Waldegrave School for Girls in 1977 ) in Clifden Road, Twickenham and Richmond Tertiary College before earning her BA ( Hons ) in American Literature and History combined with Film Studies from the University of East Anglia.

* Tertiary Extensional Features, Death Valley, Eastern California

Tertiary level vocational education is also available through the multi-campus Canberra Institute of Technology.

Tertiary structure is the entire three-dimensional shape of the protein.

With " Tertiary " being discouraged as a formal time or rock unit by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the K – T extinction event is now called the Cretaceous – Paleogene ( or K – Pg ) extinction event by many researchers.

A review of these fossils shows that ostracode diversity was lower in the Paleocene than any other time in the Tertiary.

The Quaternary Period was officially recognized by the International Commission on Stratigraphy in June 2009, and the former Tertiary Period was officially disused in 2004.

The earliest carnivorous mammal is considered to be the Cimolestes that existed during the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary Periods in North America about 65 million years ago.

Based on this he proposed dividing the Tertiary period into three parts, which he named the Pliocene, Miocene, and Eocene.

Tertiary education is normally taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as vocational education and training.

Tertiary education generally results in the receipt of certificates, diplomas, or academic degrees.

Tertiary explosives, also called blasting agents, are so insensitive to shock that they cannot be reliably detonated by practical quantities of primary explosive, and instead require an intermediate explosive booster of secondary explosive.

The oldest fossil resin dates to the Triassic, though most dates to the Tertiary.

Tertiary education is normally taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as vocational education and training.

Tertiary education is not a term used in reference to post-secondary institutions in the United States or Canada.

The 19th century discoveries of a vast and previously unexpected extinct Tertiary fauna of North America, as interpreted by paleontologists Leidy, Cope, and Marsh, aided understanding of the early history of this family.

The oldest rocks date back only to the early Tertiary Era, some 60 million years ago.

In between the Tertiary rocks of the north, and the relatively new sediments along the coast, is a vast belt known as the Pleistocene Terraces.

Early Tertiary Out-of-India Dispersal of Crypteroniaceae: Evidence from Phylogeny and Molecular Dating.

In South America, the opossums retained a strong presence, and the Tertiary saw the evolution of shrew opossums ( Paucituberculata ) and metatherian predators such as the borhyaenids and the saber-toothed Thylacosmilus.

* The New Caledonia archipelago, which includes Grande Terre, Belep, and the Île des Pins was born as a series of folds of the earth's mantle between the Permian period ( 299-251 mya ) and the Tertiary period ( 65-1. 5 mya ).

The terms Neogene System ( formal ) and upper Tertiary System ( informal ) describe the rocks deposited during the Neogene Period.

In 2006 ICS and INQUA reached a compromise that made Quaternary a subera, subdividing Cenozoic into the old classical Tertiary and Quaternary, a compromise that was rejected by International Union of Geological Sciences because it split both Neogene and Pliocene in two.