• The Mississippian (/ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi.ən/ miss-ə-SIP-ee-ən, also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale...
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  • Look up Mississippian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mississippian may refer to: Mississippian (geology), a subperiod of the Carboniferous period...
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  • treated as a full-fledged geologic period between the Mississippian and the Permian. In parts of Europe, the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian are one more-or-less...
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    Antler orogeny (category Mississippian (geology))
    orogeny ... took place during Mississippian (?) and early Pennsylvanian time. That abstract was followed in 1951 by his geologic map of the Antler Peak quadrangle...
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    of relating strata to time) and geochronology (a scientific branch of geology that aims to determine the age of rocks). It is used primarily by Earth...
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    that grows in the area. It is also called the "Mississippian Plateau," for the Mississippian geologic age in which it was formed. The Pennyroyal is bordered...
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  • Mississippian, roughly between 400 and 300 million years ago. The sediment was primarily deep ocean limestones with some shale layers. Mississippian limestones...
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    Viséan (redirect from Middle Mississippian)
    Visian is an age in the ICS geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the second stage of the Mississippian, the lower subsystem of...
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    underlying Mississippian Borden Formation and overlying Pennsylvanian Sharon Conglomerate, near Jackson, Ohio There is a billion-year gap in the geologic record...
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    Borden Formation (category Mississippian United States)
    Indiana. The Edwardsville Formation is a geological structure in the Borden Group, of the Lower Mississippian sub system, (Osagean, late Tournaisian)....
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