Pliocene

How To Use Pliocene In A Sentence

• For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
• Comparable Pliocene palaeoclimatic fluctuations can also be seen in Southern Ocean silicoplankton records and marine isotopic records, and in seismic reconstructions of Antarctic glacial stratigraphy.
• All the rocks are of Pliocene or Pleistocene, fluviatile origin, and consist mainly of sandstones, conglomerates, quartzites, shales and micaceous sandstone. Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal
• It was chiefly in its middle and latter, or Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene ages, that the myriads of its huger giants, -- its dinotheria, mastodons, and mammoths, -- cumbered the soil. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
• More specifically, there are Cretaceous, Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene marine and Oligocene and Plio-Pleistocene nonmarine sedimentary rocks. Simi Valley - Santa Susana Mountains (Bailey)
• Hence, fundamental differences in the available datasets hinder an in-depth comparison of mid-Cretaceous with Pliocene to Quaternary black shale successions.
• They indicate that the Pliocene might be the best analog for the world in the not-too-distant future. Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
• Alvarenga & Höfling (2003) grouped phorusrhacids into five subgroups; the small, gracile psilopterines, known from the Palaeocene to the Pliocene and including the oldest of all phorusrhacids; the mid-sized, shallow-skulled, gracile-legged mesembriornithines of the Miocene-Pliocene; the mid-sized patagornithines of the Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene; the gigantic, robust brontornithines of the Oligocene and Miocene; and the mostly large, gracile-legged phorusrhacines of the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene. Archive 2006-10-01
• Mary K.V. Hodges, Paul Karl Link, C. Mark Fanning, 2009, The Pliocene Lost River found to west: Detrital zircon evidence of drainage disruption along a subsiding hotspot track Scientific Articles on Yellowstone
• Increased desiccation is indicated by post-3 Ma evaporite precipitation in topographic lows above Pliocene strata and development of a saline crust throughout the Peru-Chile Desert.