Pliocene Synonyms

plīə-sēn
From 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Pliocene epoch

Words Related to Pliocene

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Pliocene Sentence Examples

  • The Pliocene flora found refuges in favored localities from which at its close the lowlands were restocked while the arctic plants were left behind on the mountains.

  • Pliocene remains are less numerous than those of the Miocene.

  • The Pliocene appears only in the coast region of the Black and Azov Seas, but it is widely developed in the Aral-Caspian region, where, however, the Ust-Urt and the Obshchiy Syrt rose above the sea.

  • The Pliocene deposits are not very widely spread and are generally of fresh-water origin excepting near the coast, but marine Pliocene beds have been found at el Forklus in the Palmyra desert.

  • In most cases the eruptions appear to be of Pliocene or later date, but in the extreme north some of the basalt seems to belong to the Miocene period.

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