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Carboniferous

of, denoting, or formed in the fifth period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Devonian and Permian periods, lasting for nearly 64 million years during which coal measures were formed
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Carboniferous

[‚kär·bə′nif·ə·rəs]
(geology)
A division of late Paleozoic rocks and geologic time including the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian periods.
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(1979) established the ichnospecies Diplichnites cuithensis for large (up to 36 cm wide) Diplichnites trackways from the Carboniferous of Scotland and attributed the trackways to arthropleurid myriapods, specifically Arthropleura, the largest known terrestrial arthropod.
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Tests conducted in the Carboniferous reservoir F1A of exploration well ZCH-1ext produced a gas flow of 19,500 m3 / h and a condensate flow of 4.7 m3 / h, on a duse of 32/64 " and a head pressure of 3500 psi, Sonatrach said in a statement.
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