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Things cretaceous often describes ("cretaceous ________")
- plutons
- floras
- sandstones
- deposits
- unconformity
- uplift
- series
- time
- basin
- cover
- beds
- deposit
- paleogene
- carbonates
- genera
- granites
- assemblages
- conglomerate
- limestones
- boundary
- paleocene
- ocean
- basins
- complex
- outcrops
- climates
- strata
- paleogeography
- reptiles
- record
- succession
- clay
- birds
- forms
- shale
- limestone
- lower
- oceans
- plants
- flora
- sands
- transgression
- climate
- epoch
- bedrock
- coals
- sequence
- rock
- ages
- extinction
- seas
- units
- mammals
- deformation
- fossils
- formation
- rocks
- sediments
- sandstone
- age
- chalk
- subsidence
- tertiary
- evolution
- stratigraphy
- ammonites
- flysch
- shales
- fauna
- vegetation
- sea
- period
- clays
- sequences
- faunas
- extinctions
- arc
- seaway
- peneplain
- events
- dinosaurs
- flint
- marls
- formations
- times
- species
- era
- sedimentation
- genus
- surface
- reservoirs
- eocene
- periods
- event
How cretaceous often is described ("________ cretaceous")
- jura
- upper
- dipping
- peruvian
- continental
- mid
- latitude
- entire
- nonmarine
- dull
- lower
- folded
- terminal
- mexico
- late
- latest
- warm
- end
- carboniferous
- lowermost
- triassic
- later
- equable
- freshwater
- cambrian
- colombian
- oolitic
- deformed
- texas
- bearing
- lowest
- marine
- thick
- probable
- eocene
- boreal
- invertebrate
- lying
- unconsolidated
- jurassic
- water
- unconformable
- horizontal
- younger
- tertiary
- post
- fossiliferous
- alaska
- earliest
- undoubted
- medial
- basal
- middle
- uppermost
- devonian
- brazilian
- transgressive
- early
- metamorphic
- disturbed
- topmost
- earlier
