This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||
|
The page on geological meaning of "tertiary" needs to begin with a common sense definition of the meaning; currently this enters only in the historical section. The very good graphic should indicate what is meant with "tertiary". Current first paragraph and the graphic use difficult and not defined scientific terminology, which is not suitable for a general introduction. - Otto Hänninen, Finland —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.167.195.60 ( talk) 08:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
All this "official" nomenclature and not one reference? -- Wetman 07:42, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Some mention of the time periods being referred to would be nice. The original definitions may have referred to certain fossils, but some hints to the number of years which are being referred to would be helpful. ( SEWilco 04:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC))
The word tertiary doesn't just involve geology. Whereas this information is valuable it shouldn't be on it's own page. The title should be something like Geological tertiary time interval.
Here is the definition of tertiary
ter·ti·ar·y /ˈtɜrʃiˌɛri, ˈtɜrʃəri/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[tur-shee-er-ee, tur-shuh-ree] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation adjective, noun, plural -ar·ies. is the name. –adjective 1. of the third order, rank, stage, formation, etc.; third.
2. Chemistry.
a. noting or containing a carbon atom united to three other carbon atoms. b. formed by replacement of three atoms or groups.
3.(initial capital letter) Geology. noting or pertaining to the period forming the earlier part of the Cenozoic Era, occurring from 65 million to 2 million years ago, characterized by the development and proliferation of mammals.
4. Ornithology. tertial. 5. Ecclesiastical. noting or pertaining to a branch, or third order, of certain religious orders that consists of lay members living in community (regular tertiaries) or living in the world (secular tertiaries). –noun
6. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Tertiary Period or System.
7. Ornithology. a tertial feather.
8. (often initial capital letter) Ecclesiastical. a member of a tertiary branch of a religious order. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xianous ( talk • contribs) 01:36, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
It's pretty clear that Tertiary is not "out-of-date"; a quick Google Scholar search shows several scientific journal article titles that use the term.~~gpurcell
If Tertiary is an out-of-date term then what should be the proper term used instead? And why is it out-of-date? Maybe this information is included in the figures but it isn't clear to someone who knows very little about this sort of thing. Could someone edit the text and spell it out? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.250.84.186 ( talk) 23:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Someone needs to fix the main page Jeremy ( talk) 22:10, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
In the first table "Events of the Cenozoic", in the right of the time scale at 5 Ma ago
the blue expression "Messinian salinity crisis"
does not go to get underlined with mousover like all other blue linking words in the table
and does not work as a link on being mouse-clicked on. -- Helium4 ( talk) 04:25, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
I believe that the term was first used as the third element in a fourfold division of geological time, each of which was accorded the status of 'era', thus: Primary era, Secondary era, Tertiary era and Quaternary era. However the article on the originator of this breakdown, Giovanni Arduino (geologist) refers to the divisions as 'periods' and 'series' - what language was actually used, I wonder and was there a translation issue between Italian and English?
The first two divisions were abandoned early on as scientific terms, leaving the Tertiary and Quaternary as 'eras' - they are recorded using the term 'era' in the 1911 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, which also mentions within the Tertiary era, the Eocene and Miocene 'periods' etc (now 'epochs' of course). They became 'periods' rather than eras at some point, and of course the Tertiary is now 'deprecated', as the article intro says, in favour of the internationally accepted Pal(a)eogene and Neogene. We ought perhaps to refer to the former use of the term 'Tertiary era' and not simply employ it as a redirect to the present 'Tertiary' page. cheers Geopersona ( talk) 07:07, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Tertiaries (disambiguation) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 13#Tertiaries (disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 10:20, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||
|
The page on geological meaning of "tertiary" needs to begin with a common sense definition of the meaning; currently this enters only in the historical section. The very good graphic should indicate what is meant with "tertiary". Current first paragraph and the graphic use difficult and not defined scientific terminology, which is not suitable for a general introduction. - Otto Hänninen, Finland —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.167.195.60 ( talk) 08:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
All this "official" nomenclature and not one reference? -- Wetman 07:42, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Some mention of the time periods being referred to would be nice. The original definitions may have referred to certain fossils, but some hints to the number of years which are being referred to would be helpful. ( SEWilco 04:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC))
The word tertiary doesn't just involve geology. Whereas this information is valuable it shouldn't be on it's own page. The title should be something like Geological tertiary time interval.
Here is the definition of tertiary
ter·ti·ar·y /ˈtɜrʃiˌɛri, ˈtɜrʃəri/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[tur-shee-er-ee, tur-shuh-ree] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation adjective, noun, plural -ar·ies. is the name. –adjective 1. of the third order, rank, stage, formation, etc.; third.
2. Chemistry.
a. noting or containing a carbon atom united to three other carbon atoms. b. formed by replacement of three atoms or groups.
3.(initial capital letter) Geology. noting or pertaining to the period forming the earlier part of the Cenozoic Era, occurring from 65 million to 2 million years ago, characterized by the development and proliferation of mammals.
4. Ornithology. tertial. 5. Ecclesiastical. noting or pertaining to a branch, or third order, of certain religious orders that consists of lay members living in community (regular tertiaries) or living in the world (secular tertiaries). –noun
6. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Tertiary Period or System.
7. Ornithology. a tertial feather.
8. (often initial capital letter) Ecclesiastical. a member of a tertiary branch of a religious order. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xianous ( talk • contribs) 01:36, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
It's pretty clear that Tertiary is not "out-of-date"; a quick Google Scholar search shows several scientific journal article titles that use the term.~~gpurcell
If Tertiary is an out-of-date term then what should be the proper term used instead? And why is it out-of-date? Maybe this information is included in the figures but it isn't clear to someone who knows very little about this sort of thing. Could someone edit the text and spell it out? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.250.84.186 ( talk) 23:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Someone needs to fix the main page Jeremy ( talk) 22:10, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
In the first table "Events of the Cenozoic", in the right of the time scale at 5 Ma ago
the blue expression "Messinian salinity crisis"
does not go to get underlined with mousover like all other blue linking words in the table
and does not work as a link on being mouse-clicked on. -- Helium4 ( talk) 04:25, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
I believe that the term was first used as the third element in a fourfold division of geological time, each of which was accorded the status of 'era', thus: Primary era, Secondary era, Tertiary era and Quaternary era. However the article on the originator of this breakdown, Giovanni Arduino (geologist) refers to the divisions as 'periods' and 'series' - what language was actually used, I wonder and was there a translation issue between Italian and English?
The first two divisions were abandoned early on as scientific terms, leaving the Tertiary and Quaternary as 'eras' - they are recorded using the term 'era' in the 1911 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, which also mentions within the Tertiary era, the Eocene and Miocene 'periods' etc (now 'epochs' of course). They became 'periods' rather than eras at some point, and of course the Tertiary is now 'deprecated', as the article intro says, in favour of the internationally accepted Pal(a)eogene and Neogene. We ought perhaps to refer to the former use of the term 'Tertiary era' and not simply employ it as a redirect to the present 'Tertiary' page. cheers Geopersona ( talk) 07:07, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Tertiaries (disambiguation) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 13#Tertiaries (disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Shhhnotsoloud ( talk) 10:20, 13 February 2022 (UTC)