Now, this oil is found in what they call the Devonian limestone, and it is our first production from Devonian. From Wordnik.com. [An Amateur Looks at the Canadian Economy] Reference
The bet was placed thousands of miles away in south-eastern United States, on a sandstone rock formation called Devonian shale. From Wordnik.com. [Reliance Drills Shale--at Home and Abroad] Reference
Orthoceratites of the Silurian and Devonian epochs. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Friedrich Heinrich Kayser (b. 1845) to be Devonian. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The Cambrian, Devonian, and Mississippian formations. From Wordnik.com. [Proclamation On The Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument] Reference
They are folded and faulted and are of Devonian age. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
The irate Devonian turned on his heel and strode off. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
The Devonian explained the situation to his comrades. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
There is an older series, ranging from the Devonian to the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
(Utica shale), of the Devonian (Hamilton and Huron shales), the. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
Devonian period, for Insects have come in, and that division of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Devonian occurs just above the middle of the Secondary, between the. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
Ohio Shale is the oldest formation, dating from the Devonian Period. From Wordnik.com. [Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio] Reference
The Devonian epoch added greatly to the outlines of the Belgian island. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
Here he demonstrated that a stiff clay soil derived from the underlying Devonian. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Can any of your Devonian readers give additional particulars of his office or his duties?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc] Reference
The U.S. potential of tight gas resources from tight sandstone and Devonian shale reservoirs is. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
She was not as the Devonian divinity, "The woman in whose golden smile all life seems enchanted.". From Wordnik.com. [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference
Another theory is, that natural gas is a product of the sea-weed deposited in the Devonian stratum. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference
By the end of the Devonian, forests of progymnosperms, such as Archaeopteris dominated the landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Paleozoic] Reference
They overlie nearly horizontal, Devonian age sandstone, siltstone, and shale of the Catskill Formation. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
Not one solitary species of fish now in existence is to be found in the Devonian or Silurian formations. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
The Devonian is visible only in Minorca, the Trias being the oldest system represented in the other islands. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
These in turn overlie Devonian age sandstone, siltstone, and shale of the Catskill Formation (Berg and others, 1980). From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
These events occurred in the Late Ordovician, Late Devonian, Permian, Triassic and an occurrence called the K/T event. From Wordnik.com. [Edenic Period] Reference
At the close of the Devonian period, several upheavals occurred of great significance for the future history of America. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Devonian angel through lanes and fields as far as Beacon Hargate, gathering wild flowers and calling at the farm for milk. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
First, we have the Devonian shores, with spreading fields of sea-weed and numbers of the club-shaped Algae of gigantic size. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Devonian deposits, and Bohemia also gained in dimensions, while the central plateau of France remained much the same as before. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
It is almost wholly composed of coal-bearing rocks, resting on Devonian strata, which are visible in many places in the valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference
The Catskill and Lock Haven (Chemung of New York) formations of Devonian age comprise the local bedrock (Berg and others, 1980). From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
This, as it belongs to the Upper Devonian or Lower Carboniferous, determines a lower limit for the age of the sandstone formation. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ Fram Expedition Geology] Reference
Plants had begun to colonize the land, closely followed in the Silurian by invertebrates, and in the Late Devonian by vertebrates. From Wordnik.com. [Paleozoic] Reference
Nearly horizontal, resistant strata of Mississippian to Devonian age underlie Wisconsinan drift and are responsible for the highland. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
For example, Devonian sturgeons and blue-green algae illustrate organisms that survived for a much greater species life than most taxa. From Wordnik.com. [Edenic Period] Reference
Microbes and insects that first evolved in the Devonian will descend in force, and soon the rose garden is a flowerless patch of thorns. From Wordnik.com. [On this Earth Day, a question: Take care of the garden or let it grow wild?] Reference
Ecoregion 67i is often underlain by folded, mostly Devonian age sedimentary rocks; the Chemung Group and the Brallier Formation are common. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
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