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Definition: Cretacic
Cretacic
\Cre*tac"ic\
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Cretaceous acid,
an old name for carbonic acid.
Cretaceous formation (Geol.), the series of strata of
various kinds, including beds of chalk, green sand, etc.,
formed in the Cretaceous period; -- called also the
chalk formation
. See the Diagram under
Geology.
Cretaceous period (Geol.), the time in the latter part of
the Mesozoic age during which the Cretaceous formation was
deposited, and at the end of which the dinosaurs died out.
See
Cretaceous.
[1913 Webster +PJC]