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Campanian /kamˈpeɪnɪən / /kamˈpanjən /adjective1Relating to or characteristic of the Italian region of Campania or its inhabitants: the bright light and heat of Campanian high summer...- The teeming life of Pompeii, Misenum and other Campanian towns is well depicted by Cicero and other writers.
- In this classic Campanian snack, rough country bread would be used.
- Rome's Western Empire formally collapsed in AD 476, when its last emperor, Romulus Augustus, took early retirement in the Campanian countryside.
2Denoting a subdivision of the Late Cretaceous period: both faunas are late Campanian...- Below the limestone beds are Campanian grey shales, which are covered by vegetation and could not be sampled, and a thick sequence of limestones.
- The upper Campanian interval consists of thick limestone beds interlayered with marls, followed by thick beds of marls interlayered with limestones.
- Sea levels probably peaked in either early Turonian or late Campanian times.
noun1A native or inhabitant of the Italian region of Campania: Octavian settled Campanians at Knossos...- He took matters into his own hands and fired the only goal of the game to keep the Campanians within three points of Juventus.
- Decius the tribune was a Campanian by race and a man of unusual greed and daring.
- He was followed by Gnaeus Naeuius (born about 274, died 204) a Campanian who came at an early age to Rome.
2 ( the Campanian) The Campanian period or the system of rocks deposited during it: increases in carnivore richness and abundance occurred before the Campanian...- Studies of these rocks have indicated that pelagic sedimentation may have persisted there until the Campanian.
- These analyses find a significant decrease in rarefied-sample species richness from the Campanian through the Eocene, but no change in evenness.
- Likewise, I found no increase in gastropod richness from the Campanian to the Eocene.
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