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.
- ‘Homo sapiens’ pliocene or miocene, or yet more ancient?
- During the Pliocene the basin was compressed, sheared and uplifted.
- Awl doze thesaurusii theosoreeye, mebbee? whir stinkd bai teh pliocene!
- 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.
- We are in the transition-stage from the miocene to the pliocene period of human existence.
- Over in the Picket Post Mountains, if you please, I have seen misty island-like protuberances, resembling greatly the post-pliocene crannoges of the Roscommon loughs.
- I suppose the continent has gone to make another layer, a stratum, on top of the pliocene, and after awhile the waters will subside, or some volcanic action will raise up
- Sir Charles Lyell clearly establishes the fact that _Elephas primigenius_, _Elephas antiquus_, _Rhinoceros tichorrhinus_, _Ursus speloeus_, and other extinct species of the post-pliocene alluvium,
- The pliocene mammals are like the existing ones, because such was the plan of creation; and we find rudimental organs and similarity of plan, because it has pleased the Creator to set before Himself a
- It is not impossible that the latter species, which appear generically identical, are the descendants of more distinct pliocene types, as the persistent tendency in all the earlier forms was in the same direction.
- Did no opposing traditions stand in the way, we are quite sure the evidence elicited from this examination would at once fix its character as a burial place, of an antiquity coeval with the existence of the great extinct mammalia of the post-pliocene period.
- The action of the elements during subsequent ages has worn away in great part the banks of the pliocene river and eroded in places the solid slate rocks to the depth of two thousand feet, leaving this sinuous wall as a mute witness of the mighty forces of nature.