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Quaternary period   /kwˈɑtərnˌɛri pˈɪriəd/   Listen
Quaternary period

noun
1.
Last 2 million years.  Synonyms: Age of Man, Quaternary.






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"Quaternary period" Quotes from Famous Books



... northern hemisphere underwent a further progressive diminution of temperature; though the climate of Europe generally seems at the close of the Tertiary period to have been if anything warmer, or at any rate not colder, than it is at the present day. With the commencement of the Quaternary period, however, this diminution of temperature became more decided; and beginning with a temperate climate, we find the greater portion of the northern hemisphere to become gradually subjected to all the rigours of intense Arctic cold. All the mountainous regions of ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson



Words linked to "Quaternary period" :   Pleistocene, Holocene, Age of Mammals, Cenozoic, Cenozoic era, glacial epoch, Pleistocene epoch, recent, Holocene epoch, geological period, period, Recent epoch



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