Explore Triassic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like period. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Triassic in a sentence
Triassic meaning
Of or from the geologic strata above the Permian and below the Jurassic; of or belonging to the period 250 to 200 million years ago when these strata were laid down.
Synonyms of Triassic
Using Triassic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or from the geologic strata above the Permian and below the Jurassic; of or belonging to the period 250 to 200 million years ago when these strata were laid down.
- Useful related words include: period, geological period, triassic period.
- In the example corpus, triassic often appears in combinations such as: the triassic, triassic and, triassic period.
Context around Triassic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Triassic
- In this selection, "triassic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, early, middle, late, period, jurassic and extinction stand out and add context to how "triassic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include during the triassic period and during the triassic the first. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "triassic" sits close to words such as aarp, accretion and aerosols, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with triassic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gizmodo: The dinosaurs lived across three time periods, the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. (13 words)
And then, at the end of the Triassic period, you have this mass-extinction event which wiped. (17 words)
Nearly 250 million years ago, a very odd reptile patrolled the shorelines and coves of the Triassic Alps. (18 words)
The greatest mass extinction of all time, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction 250 million years ago, killed 95 percent of life, and the very few survivors faced a turbulent world, repeatedly hit by ice ages, rapid warming and ocean acidification cycles. (41 words)
Dinosaurs diverged from their archosaur ancestors approximately 230 million years ago during the Middle to Late Triassic period, roughly 20 million years after the Permian-Triassic extinction event wiped out an estimated 95% of all life on Earth. (38 words)
Other global changes—a warming climate, a rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and an increase in ocean acidification—also occurred around the end of the Permian period and the beginning of the Triassic and likely contributed. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Well partner Lundin Petroleum said in a statement the probe struck “good and variable quality sandstones in the late Triassic and sandstones in the early Triassic of poor quality” but “none were hydrocarbon-bearing”.
Coal gapmain No coal deposits are known from the Early Triassic, and those in the Middle Triassic are thin and low-grade.
Dinosaurs diverged from their archosaur ancestors approximately 230 million years ago during the Middle to Late Triassic period, roughly 20 million years after the Permian-Triassic extinction event wiped out an estimated 95% of all life on Earth.
Temnospondyli evolved during this time and would be the dominant predator for much of the Triassic. citation Plateosaurus (a prosauropod The Middle Triassic spans from 247 million to 237 million years ago.
Triassic insects are very different from those of the Permian, but a gap in the insect fossil record spans approximately 15 million years from the late Permian to early Triassic.
His analysis determined that the thalattosuchian lineage diverged from its last common ancestor with crocodile-relatives during the Triassic period.
These insects, which resembled moths with shrunken heads, originated during the middle Triassic Period and persisted for around 160 million years into the Cretaceous Period.
The 'tilt' of the rocks creates a unique 'walk through time' from 250 million to 65 million years ago, through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods as you walk eastwards along the site.
Travel back in time and uncover a realm of and ice age creatures in an interactive installation of life-sized animatronic beasts from the Jurassic, Triassic, Cretaceous and Ice Age periods.
However, CTV News at 11:30 was where she really showed off her scales, surprising everyone with a Triassic two-step and a Jurassic jive.
Nearly 250 million years ago, a very odd reptile patrolled the shorelines and coves of the Triassic Alps.
Other global changes—a warming climate, a rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and an increase in ocean acidification—also occurred around the end of the Permian period and the beginning of the Triassic and likely contributed.
The greatest mass extinction of all time, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction 250 million years ago, killed 95 percent of life, and the very few survivors faced a turbulent world, repeatedly hit by ice ages, rapid warming and ocean acidification cycles.
And then, at the end of the Triassic period, you have this mass-extinction event which wiped.
However, only 15 metres of aquiferous sandstone was encountered in the Lunde formation in the Upper Triassic, with the oil-water contact determined in lower Statfjord at about 3170 metres below sea level.
At the dawn of the Triassic, 250 million years ago, early dinosaurs were probably small, similar-looking meat eaters.
For these reasons, the researchers have been unable to determine exactly whether the ichthyosaur was latest Triassic or earliest Jurassic in age, although it is roughly 200 million-year-old.
Gizmodo: The dinosaurs lived across three time periods, the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous.
Ichthyosaurs made their first appearance in the Triassic period, surviving through the Jurassic and into the Late Cretaceous.
Remarkably, it lived 237 million years ago during the Triassic—the first of three periods to host the dinosaurs.
Common combinations with triassic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: