Occurring in yellow, golden and brown colors, Baltic Amber is also known as Succinite after its parent tree pinus succinfera that was common in the tertiary period, some 50 million years ago.
Though only a select few can join the ranks as Ivy Leaguers each year, Americans are endowed with a world-class tertiary educational system second to none.
Yet despite France's inclusive tertiary system, the country performs poorly in terms of intergenerational mobility, whether measured by educational outcomes or professional class.
In some books, too, you will find the tertiary and quaternary taken out and replaced by periods of different lengths called the Palaeogene and Neogene.