Cretaceous deposits in Crete?

[DD1991]

I read in the book Dinosaurs: The Grand Tour that the Cretaceous period is named for the Greek island of Crete, but I wanted to ask if Crete itself has Cretaceous deposits.

[Al Dente]

I thought Cretaceous was named from creta, which is Latin for chalk.

[piranha]

The terms are interchangeable:

 

 

Brown, R.W. 1956

Composition of Scientific Words.

Smithsonian Institution Press, 882 pp.  PDF LINK

[piranha]

"No great extinction opens this epoch, only a geological trend that saw more chalk formed than in any other time within the last 500M years, which led a German geologist to name it the Kreidezeit or ‘chalk period’. This term was later Latinised into Cretaceous; the limestone rich Greek island of Crete owes its name to the same derivation."

 

Pim, K., Horner, J., Pastori, F. 2019

Dinosaurs: The Grand Tour: Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops. Second Edition. The Experiment Publishing, LLC, 368 pp.