How To Use Pliocene In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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More specifically, there are Cretaceous, Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene marine and Oligocene and Plio-Pleistocene nonmarine sedimentary rocks.
Simi Valley - Santa Susana Mountains (Bailey)
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Hence, fundamental differences in the available datasets hinder an in-depth comparison of mid-Cretaceous with Pliocene to Quaternary black shale successions.
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They indicate that the Pliocene might be the best analog for the world in the not-too-distant future.
Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
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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
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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
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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.
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Lothagam is a more restricted area and its strata are older-late Miocene to early Pliocene, overlain unconformably by Quaternary sands, gravels, and coquinas.
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The latter, a series of ferruginous shelly sands, are the only preserved in situ product of the late Miocene-early Pliocene marine transgression.
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Miocene-Pliocene volcanic rocks have a calc-alkaline character which gives way to a predominantly alkaline character in late Pliocene to Quaternary times.
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Temperate carbonates were deposited in the Carboneras Basin, a small embayment of the Mediterranean Sea, during the early Pliocene.
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About halfway through the Pliocene epoch several important tectonic events occurred.
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The overlying Pliocene reflections display a regular layer-cake stratigraphy of downwarped reflections defining a U-shaped depression.
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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
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Edition X., page 229), "This hypothesis appears to me of very partial application, for active volcanoes, even such as are on the borders of continents, are rarely situated where great deltas have been forming, whether in Pliocene or post-Tertiary times.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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We restricted our reported mesoscale data to sites of unequivocal Upper Pliocene-Holocene age and consequently report very few fault-slip data.
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This layer of tuff was in turn overlain by a series of andesitic and basaltic lavas, between the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene.
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappodocia, Turkey
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Crustal thickening under the Himalayas reached a maximum during the Pliocene, although the mountains continued to grow (as they are still growing today).
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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
Essays
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The Pliocene is the best analog we have in the past for what could happen in our future," said Christopher Brierley, a Yale postdoctoral associate and an author of the study.
Zee News : India National
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Finally, the pliocene gives us for the first time, oxen, deer, camels, and other specimens of the ruminantia.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
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The term Miocene (from Greek meion, less; and Greek kainos, recent) is intended to express a minor proportion of Recent species (of testacea); the term Pliocene (from Greek pleion, more; and Greek kainos, recent), a comparative plurality of the same.
The Antiquity of Man
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The large horse behind me is a 3 million year old Equus simplicidens from the Pliocene, which is very similar to the modern horse.
Pandas and Man at Harvard - The Panda's Thumb
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The edentata being proved (as I hold) to have been mere temporary migrants into North America in the post-Pliocene epoch, form no part of its Tertiary fauna.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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Several groups of xenarthrans successfully crossed the Central American land bridge to North America when it formed in the Pliocene; these included a number of kinds of ground sloths and armadillos.
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The Tertiary sedimentary rocks are Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene.
Santa Cruz Mountains (Bailey)
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From Pliocene time the shallow emplacement of intrusive bodies resulted in thermal metamorphism (forming, for example, biotite, cordierite, andalusite, K-feldspar and corundum in pelites) and hydrothermal activity.
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The JOIDES Resolution expedition to Wilkes Land is investigating some of these, such as the Pliocene, about 3 million years ago, when the world was on average 3 C (5.4 F) warmer than today.
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Neogene" of Hörnes (1853) included the Miocene and Pliocene periods;
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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In general, species richness in the Miocene and Pliocene was high whereas Pleistocene and Recent diversity is very low.
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During the Pliocene, Paratethys was linked to the Arctic Ocean via a seaway just west of the Urals, apparently, and accordingly it has been proposed that the Ringed seal of the Arctic Ocean descends from a phocine that migrated north from the Paratethys (Ray 1976, Grigorescu 1977) [adjacent image shows a Ringed seal].
The most inconvenient seal
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The strata next below the Pleistocene gravels and cave deposits are ascribed to the "Pliocene age" -- older than these are the "Miocene" and the "Eocene," and then you come to the Chalk, a good white landmark separating newer from older strata.
More Science From an Easy Chair
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In the gastropods groups I surveyed, 124 taxa at the subgenus and species-group level occurred in the Gatunian Province during the late Miocene and early Pliocene.
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the zoology of the Pliocene epoch
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The Pliocene is a more interesting case but note the dinos I was talking about are back in the Cretaceous, so we’re talking about different climates here.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Economic Climate Change Denialism:
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A Pliocene age for the Siesta palaeosol and Nothofagus fossils has been inferred from diatom and palynological biostratigraphy.
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More specifically, this ecoregion is composed of metamorphosed Mesozoic greywacke sandstone, siltstone, and marine volcanics overlain by Miocene intrusives, Pliocene marine and terrestrial fine-grained sediments, and Quaternary lavas and pyroclastics.
Southeastern Papuan rain forests
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Pliocene-Pleistocene ice rafting history and cyclicity in the Nordic Seas during the last 3.5 Myr.
Variability in hydrographic properties and currents in the Arctic
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I’m also mentioning the Pliocene rather than the Cretaceous or Jurassic or some relatively remote period, because the Pliocene is the period just before the standard Vostok 800 Kyr graphic.
Pliocene #1: North Greenland « Climate Audit
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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
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Her Pliocene Exile saga is a great combination of High Fantasy, SF, and Celtic myth.
MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H
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The continuation stated that Elliot Smith — with whom Keith was to quarrel a year or so later — had made the most notable contribution to the meeting with his commentary on the "brain cast" that was given him by Smith Woodward, and that "the chief divergence of opinion" in the discussion related to the antiquity of the finds, with Sir Arthur Keith — mentioned by name — regarding them as earlier than Pleistocene and possibly Pliocene, that is to say, the age to which some of the planted fossil animal teeth may have belonged.
The Piltdown Mystery: An Exchange
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A cover of undeformed Middle-Upper Miocene to Pliocene rocks is present in all the Tertiary basins.
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The environment of this particular limestone during the Pliocene was shallow open marine and was probably near a point where constant influxes from a river were common.
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The Rexroad Formation of Pliocene age is composed of silts, sands, consolidated gravels and numerous caliche zones, and overlies the Miocene Ogallala Formation in the Borchers Badlands.
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Fuzhou, a venture capital company Pliocene - based venture capital group for the main business is more likely.
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The details of regional geology together with extensional folds in the Alasehir graben are enough to refute a short lived contractional tectonics in late Miocene to Pliocene in western Turkey.
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This work has been going on from the commencement of the period in the world's history known as the Pliocene Age, and it is reckoned that the interval which must have elapsed since then must have amounted to millions of years.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
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The fossils from the formation represent organisms that thrived during the Pliocene epoch, at the end of the Tertiary period.
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Marine mudstone and sandstone of Miocene-Pliocene origin form two hilly areas in the west.
Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
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Overall, these data reflect a protracted history of speciation throughout the Pleistocene and Pliocene’ (pp. 1666-1667), and they termed the LPO model ‘a failed paradigm’.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Volcanism in the Pliocene epoch overtopped the existing Miocene volcanics of Ecoregion 4b.
Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
