Geology. Earlier or older than a period of deposition of diluvial or drift deposits (originally identified with the biblical Flood: cf. diluvial, adj.…
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释义 | the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > other ages or periods (9) antediluvial1822 Geology. Earlier or older than a period of deposition of diluvial or drift deposits (originally identified with the biblical Flood: cf. diluvial, adj.… psychozoic1828 †(a) involving both the mind and the living body; psychosomatic (obsolete); (b) Geology (now rare) designating or relating to the period of… pluvial1868 Geology. Designating any of various periods of relatively high average rainfall in low and intermediate latitudes, esp. during the Pleistocene… anthropic1893 Anthropology. In the terminology of J. W. Dawson: designating the geological period following the Pleistocene in which human remains and artefacts… Ozarkian1896 Geology. Of, relating to, or designating the Ozarkian epoch. Now disused. mature1899 Physical Geography. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the central period in a cycle of erosion, during which the widest diversity of… interpluvial1907 Designating any of the periods of generally drier conditions in equatorial latitudes during the geological past (esp. the Pleistocene) which… Rhaeto-Liassic1909 Of or relating to the Rhaetic and Liassic stages or series. Also as noun: the series themselves. intrapluvial1934 Of, pertaining to, or designating relatively short, drier periods (less marked than interpluvials) that may have occurred during pluvials. |
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