Crossword-Solution: ARCHAEAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Archaean | a. | Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history. |
| Archaean | n. | The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life. |
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| ANCIENT ___ | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with ARCHAEAN (5)
Lawrence River to Hudson Bay, around which it laps in the form of a V, and so is known as the Archaean V or shield.
The ancient formation which thus marks the beginnings of the solid surface of the globe is commonly called by geologists the Archaean rock, and the myriads of uncounted years during which it slowly took shape are called the Archaean age.
But the word 'Archaean' itself tells us nothing, being merely a Greek term meaning 'very old.' This Archaean or original rock must necessarily have extended all over the surface of our sphere as it cooled from its molten form and contracted into the earth on which we live.
Originally an archaean sea-bottom rock this stone lay submerged in the ocean until during the Jurassic Period, under the lateral pressure of a cooling earthcrust the table-lands and mountain-chains of Arizona rose from the seas.
All this is of historic record in stony cypher of geology indelibly engraved by time on the rocky walls of deepest canyons, as traceable from the primordial archaean to our present era, the age of man.