Pliocene

How To Use Pliocene In A Sentence

• 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.
• The great mammals of the Pliocene age, again, such as the deinotherium and the mastodon, were also, in their way, very big things in livestock; but they scarcely exceeded the modern elephant, and by no means came near the modern whales. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• 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.