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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



... and the glaciers that had so extensively covered the surface receded. Once more there was a decline in the heat, and the glaciers again advanced, but this time not so far as formerly. This ushered in the Quaternary period, during which very slowly the temperature came to its present degree. The water deposits that were being made required thousands of centuries for their completion. At the beginning of the Quaternary period there were alive the cave-bear, the cave-lion, the amphibious hippopotamus, the ...
— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper


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


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