pliocene
IPA: pɫˈaɪʌsin
Root Word: Pliocene
noun
- (geology) The Pliocene epoch.
adjective
- (geology) Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 5.3 to 1.7 million years ago; marked by the appearance of humanity's first ancestors.
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Examples of "pliocene" in Sentences
- It went on to mature in the Pliocene.
- There is an unconformity at the Pliocene base.
- Addition to the fauna of the Florida Pliocene.
- It is a cinder cone that formed in the Pliocene period.
- The mountain is capped by Pliocene andesite and basalt.
- During the Pliocene the basin was compressed, sheared and uplifted.
- Pliopithecus is a genus of extinct primates of the Miocene and Pliocene.
- A primitive Late Pliocene cheetah, and evolution of the cheetah lineage.
- Antarctica was ice bound throughout the Pleistocene and the preceding Pliocene.
- In the west the contact with the Pliocene Oosterhout Formation is more gradual.
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