Tertiary relicts found refuge in the southern and mountainous parts of the kingdom, especially in the Eastern Asiatic Region and North American Atlantic Region.

Their common ancestor can be traced back to the Early Tertiary period tens of millions of years ago, with a wide distribution across Eurasia.

They are known since the Jurassic and can be found as fossil e. g. in layers from Tertiary times.

It is known since the Jurassic and can be found as fossil e. g. in layers from Tertiary times.

The Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary were very quiet in Shropshire, and very little evidence can be found from these periods.

* Tertiary level training can be undertaken at the Monash University Peninsula campus, Institute of TAFE in nearby Frankston.

Of these days, seventeen are at the disposal of the Leader of the Opposition and three can be used by the leader of the smaller, or Tertiary, opposition party ( for most recent history this has been the Liberal Democrats ).

At least two erosional surfaces can be recognised within the pediplain are the Tertiary age.

He can also be heard in several instalments of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases, as Wowbagger and Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz.

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.

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.

Lower Tertiary rock formations encountered in the Gulf of Mexico oil industry tend to be comparatively high temperature and high pressure reservoirs, often with high sand content ( 70 %+) or under very thick salt sediment layers.

It was introduced by Jules Desnoyers in 1829 for sediments of France's Seine Basin that seemed clearly to be younger than Tertiary Period rocks.

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.

In the early development of the study of geology, the periods were thought to correspond to the Biblical narrative, the rocks of the Tertiary being thought to be associated with the Great Flood.

Tertiary structure is considered to be largely determined by the protein's primary structure-the sequence of amino acids of which it is composed.

Jacobson and Lester suggest that these early habitats of Welwitschiaceae were more mesic than the current desert conditions, and that the present fragmented and isolated population distribution could be attributed to aridification during the Tertiary and Quaternary, which restricted the plants to locales providing sufficient water for their needs.

* Wolfsegg Iron: Thought to be from the Tertiary epoch ; actually from an early mining operation.

Ancient Tertiary rivers flowed through the area on courses that would be impossible today.

Tertiary education ( or " higher education ") is required for many middle-class professions, depending on how the term middle class is to be defined.

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.

HSC results may also be used to calculate the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank ( ATAR ).

* Tertiary consumers, which may or may not be apex predators, then consume the secondary consumers, with some energy passed on and some lost, as with the lower levels of the food chain.

The New Zealand First party preferred that Tertiary Students themselves choose whether their provider should be voluntary or complusary and pushed through a compromise to the amendment that allowed for a Compulsory Vs Voluntary referendum to be held at every public Tertiary Education Provider.

He subdivided the Tertiary Period into four epochs according to the percentage of fossil mollusks resembling modern species found in those strata.

Tertiary education in the US for some deaf Australian adults also accounts for some ASL borrowings found in modern Auslan.

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.

In the northeast southward dipping and internally thrusted Tertiary foreland deposits ( flysch and molasse ) are found.

Most famous in the district is the Messel Pit, where many fossils in the oil shale of a Tertiary lake were found.

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

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.

Its remains are also found in Tertiary rocks.

Remains of Cambro-Silurian sedimentary cover ( 550-400 Ma old sandstones, shales and limestones ) are found in some areas in southern Sweden, while Mesozoic and Tertiary sediments ( younger than 250 Ma ) are found in southernmost Sweden ( Skåne ) and in Denmark.

Sanday includes rocks that are geologically part of the Paleocene and Eocene British Tertiary Volcanic Province, among some of the youngest rocks found in Scotland.

A similar plant is also found in Miocene deposits of the Tertiary of Europe.

Fossil alligatoriods have been found throughout Eurasia as land bridges across both the North Atlantic and the Bering Strait have connected North America to Eurasia during the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods.

Investigations of Upper Cretaceous and Early Tertiary sediments of Antarctica yield a rich assemblage of well-preserved fossil dicotyledonous angiosperm wood which provides evidence for the existence, since the Late Cretaceous, of temperate forests similar in composition to those found in present-day southern South America, New Zealand and Australia.

Until recently, Rodeites dakshinii was the oldest fossil member known ; it is a preserved sporocarp containing spores, found in Tertiary chert of India.

Hyracotherium ( ; " hyrax-like beast "), also known as Eohippus or the dawn horse, is an extinct genus of very small ( about 60 cm in length ) perissodactyl ungulates that lived in the woodlands of the northern hemisphere, with species ranging throughout Asia, Europe, and North America during the early Tertiary Period and the early to mid Eocene Epoch, about 55 — 45 million years ago with the earliest fossil specimen found at the Tsagan Khushu Quarry 1 site, Mongolia averaging about 60 cm in length and weighing around 15 – 16 kg ( 36 lbs ).

Recent ( 2008 ) discoveries by Xu Xing, a Chinese paleontologist, have found fossilized feathers in rock formations dating from the Jurassic period ( 200 to 150 million years ago ) to the late Tertiary period ( 65 to 2 million years ago ).

In the depressions that border the Pe-shan swelling on north and south are found the sedimentary deposits of the Tertiary sea of the Han-hai, but no traces of those deposits have been found on the swelling itself at altitudes of 5600 to.

Tertiary river gravels are found in the Blackall Street area.