palaeo-paleo-comb. form

1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. 1774 Paleo Christian,..pertaining or belonging to, or influenced by, the first ages of the Christian church.

1971 R. E. Witt Isis in Graeco-Roman World iii. 44 So too in palaeochristian thinking Mary was Christ's ‘sister, mother, consort’.

1996 Holiday Which? Mar. 117/1 The palaeo-Christian necropolis where once the city's early Christians were interred.

1964 Evolution 18 575 This paleocommunity has no counterpart in the vegetation of eastern United States.

2000 Jrnl. Paleontol. 74 158 This new fossil site provides information for the reconstruction of paleocommunities of arthropods and sedimentary environments in the extreme south of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin during the Lower Cretaceous.

1875 J. W. Dawson Nature & Bible v. 155 I have suggested the terms Palæocosmic and Neocosmic, and I would hold as of the first age such men as can be proved to have lived in time of greatest elevation of the European land in the Post-glacial period, and of the second those who came in as their successors in the Modern period.

1877 J. W. Dawson Origin of World xiii. 285 Antediluvian men may thus in geology be Pleistocene as distinguished from modern, or Palæocosmic as distinguished from Neocosmic.

1884 Leisure Hour Mar. 148/2 The second continental period was that of palæocosmic, or ‘palæolithic’ man.

1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 126 As a rule, also, the Palæocrinoids have a calyx.

1885 Athenæum 11 Apr. 475/3 It has an anal cone covered with plates—all palæocrinoid characters.

1889 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 26 231 (title) On the attachment of Platyceras to paleocrinoids and its effects in modifying the form of the shell.

1955 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 66 1606 (heading) Paleocurrents of Lake Superior Precambrian quartzites.

1971 Nature 28 May 245/2 A W.N.W. to N. palaeocurrent component predominates in the channel sandstones with pedogenic modification..occurring on most proximal floodplain deposits.

1987 R. L. Ciochon & A. B. Chiarelli in R. L. Ciochon & J. G. Fleagle Primate Evol. & Human Origins xv. 114 These patterns of paleocurrent flow in the Caribbean would argue strongly against rafting as a means of dispersal between preexisting volcanic island arcs.

1959 Endeavour 18 32/1 The palaeodesert of the Permian of England is typified by the Penrith sandstones of the Eden Valley.

1979 U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper No. 1052. 236/1 In the Botucatú paleodesert, southern air masses moved northward, leaving their traces mainly in Pouań and São Paulo.

1966 Science 16 Dec. 1413/2 (heading) Earth's paleofield.

1968 New Scientist 4 Apr. 16/1 Since the newly acquired moment is proportional to the known field, and the natural moment of the virgin rock is proportional to the ancient field, a simple equation allows the ‘palaeofield’ to be calculated.

1994 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. 126 171 Coarse-grained igneous and metamorphic rocks can only record a paleofield direction accurately if there is a suitable orientation distribution of the rock-forming minerals that host the ferromagnets.

1882 J. G. Garson & H. Gadow tr. C. Gegenbaur in Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 16 622 The first form we propose to call ‘Palæogenetic’ [Ger. palaeogenetsich], the second ‘Neogenetic’ atavism.

1897 Amer. Naturalist 31 569 It is only by a complete knowledge of the palæogenetic history of a phylum that we can decide surely whether certain characters of the skeleton..are homogenetic or homoplastic in their origin.

1913 Biometrika 9 365 The plan of the localised leucotic patches may be palaeogenetic as suggested by piebalds with white belly markings and flare.

1995 Interzone Feb. 8/1 From a palaeogenetic perspective, analysing nuclear DNA was like trying to make sense of ‘fossils’ which had been forged by cementing together assorted bone fragments from 10,000 different individuals.

1962 Jrnl. Geophysical Res. 67 3461/2 Since different parts of formations became magnetized at different times, secular variation of the paleogeomagnetic field must have produced a certain amount of scatter of the directions of magnetization.

1988 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 327 80 This is based on diversity gradients of the total fauna, coral distribution, but also receives independent confirmation from the limited palaeogeomagnetic data available.

1862 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 30 7 Any slightest conversancy with Sanskrit paleoglyphs is incompatible with a decision so indulgent.

1898 J. W. Fewkes Archeol. Expedition to Arizona in 1895 in 17th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1895–6 ii. 568 The majority of the paleoglyphs are of Apache origin, and of comparatively modern date.

1914 W. J. L. Abbott in Sphere Jan. 132/2 Upon further washing and scrubbing it became evident that we had here the first discovered example of a British palaeoglyph.

1970 R. G. J. Strens in S. K. Runcorn Palaeogeophysics xl. 383 Prospects for measuring palaeogravity with an accuracy sufficient to detect major variations (> 10%) over the last 3000 m. yr appear good.

1978 Nature 12 Jan. 153/2 Hypotheses involving substantial changes in Earth radius over geological time can be tested by measuring palaeogravity at, or near, the Earth's surface.

1853 A. Boué in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 55 298 (heading) On the palæohydrography and orography of the Earth's surface.

1933 W. J. Arkell Jurassic Syst. Great Brit. xviii. 557 To do justice to the palæogeography of the Jurassic period..we should have to proceed systematically from the points of view of..palaeohydrography, palaeoceanography, palaeobiogeography, palaeoclimatology,..and many others.

1997 Marine Micropaleontol. 30 79 Probably a sharp change of palaeohydrography and the opening of the new submarine seaways led to the appearance and radiation of new higher taxa.

1854 A. Boué in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 56 9 Upon palæohydrology, I may soon treat.

1965 Quaternary U.S. 783/1 The study of Quaternary paleohydrology can be assisted if existing relations between climate and hydrology can be extrapolated into the past.

1992 Guardian 21 Apr. 27/3 (advt.) NERC Studentship: Holocene palaeohydrology from testate amoebae analysis.

1965 Jrnl. Geomagnetism & Geoelectr. 17 417 (heading) Preliminary results of investigations made to study the use of Indian pottery to determine the paleointensity of the geomagnetic field for United States 600–1400 a.d.

1974 Nature 17 May 227/2 If the Moon were uniformly magnetised, it would need to have had a dipole moment of about 10²³ gauss cm³ to give an ancient surface field of 2,000 gamma (γ) which is typical of several palaeointensity studies.

1997 Geophysical Jrnl. Internat. 131 325 The recovered sediments..provided good conditions for the reconstruction of the relative palaeointensity of the geomagnetic field.

1964 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 54 186 It is planned to begin extensive investigations of the problem of karst as a whole, with special attention paid to climatic relationships, tropical karst, and paleo-karst.

1994 Science 28 Jan. 494/1 Microfossils have been discovered in cavity-fill and replacement silica that occurs between chert-breccia clasts in 1200-million-year-old paleokarst at the top of the Mescal Limestone.

1971 Science 15 Jan. 3967 Meltwater flowed into the depression, depositing units 1 and 2 in a cool, oligotrophic lake, here called Paleolake Seibold.

1992 S. S. Hall Mapping Next Millennium (1993) v. 117 Lake Chad, one of these so-called paleolakes, covered as much area as the present-day Caspian Sea.

1887 Athenæum 15 Oct. 498/2 A rare example of conscientious and loving typography, and what for want of a better word we must call palæolatry.

1945 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 29 427 Paleolithologic maps have lines, isoliths, connecting points of similar lithology and separating rocks of differing nature.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) IX. 519/1 Paleolithologic maps showing bottom sediment patterns suggest whether rocks were laid in depths of strong wave action or in quieter water of deeps or broad shoals.

1964 K. M. Creer in A. E. M. Nairn Probl. Palaeoclimatol. 274 Because of the assumed axial symmetry of the field, palaeomagnetic data cannot yield information about palaeolongitude.

1990 P. Kearey & F. J. Vine Global Tectonics xi. 261 Palaeomagnetic methods give no control on palaeolongitude.

1877 Fraser's Mag. 15 541 Even to those who look upon war as..now on its last legs, the reflections on military history will be an interesting study of those palæomachic days.

1961 Nature 17 June 1097/2 Localities along the same palæo-meridian.

1979 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 291 523 It is more notable that our pre-Pliocene data from the Lesser Antilles show no significant deviations of the palaeomeridian, nor do the Cretaceous rocks from Tobago.

1993 Tectonophysics 221 251 Mean declinations were found to be deflected westward with respect to the Eurasian paleomeridian.

1890 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Nov. 770 The copper and early bronze stage—the ‘palæo-metallic’ stage, as it might be called.

1933 Amer. Anthropologist 35 96 The copper adze-like axe in the palæo-metallic epoch became widely distributed, penetrating from the Near East to Western Europe and Eastern Asia.

1997 P. Bellwood Prehist. Indo-Malaysian Archipelago ix. 275 The bulk of the Paleometallic sites in the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago overlap in date with the historical evidence for the earliest historical trading sites.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 694 The gusto with which our zealous Palæophilist listens to the rattling sound of certain ancient leaves of the rare volumes.

1928 Science 24 Feb. 216/1 To a true palaeophilist fossil footprints are notes from the life of the animals of the past and give us some clue..of their daily life.

1900 R. T. Hill in Topogr. Atlas U.S. Geol. Surv. Folio 3. 5/3 Destructional plains are sometimes evolved from constructional plains; the latter, after elevation in long erosion, are reduced in old age to the former. On the other hand, constructional plains are usually established upon areas which were once destructional plains. Ancient buried destructional plains thus veneered by constructional formations might be appropriately termed paleoplains.

1966 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 50 2302/2 Farther west along the flank of the Canadian shield..a vast paleoplain..was covered by Lower Cretaceous (locally Upper Jurassic) sediments which include a high percentage of sandstone which could serve as reservoir.

1996 Jrnl. Volcanol. & Geothermal Res. 70 107 The massive ignimbrite, generally about 15 m thick, covers a paleoplain throughout at least two thirds of its areal extent.

1962 Geofisica Pura e Applicata 53 52 (heading) Rock magnetism and the earth's palaeopoles.

1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xv. 212 The evidence favouring drift including geomagnetic data (palaeopole investigations).

1990 P. Kearey & F. J. Vine Global Tectonics xi. 250 The location of the palaeopoles can be determined from palaeomagnetic measurements.

1960 Geofisica Pura e Applicata 45 116 The palaeo-radius corresponding to the time t.

1978 Nature 26 Jan. 316/1 Observations of the surface of Mercury and Mars by spacecraft enable constraints to be placed on the palaeo-radius of these extraterrestrial bodies.

1960 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 1 Feb. 154/1 A method for determining paleosalinities..would also be of considerable practical value in the search for various types of mineral deposits and petroleum.

1997 Jrnl. Paleolimnol. 17 23 The diatom paleosalinity record indicates that Harris Lake remained fresh..throughout the Holocene.

1846 J. Harris Pre-Adamite Earth v. 196 Above this, comes the zechstein or magnesian limestone formation, charged with Palæosaurs, theodonts, and monitors.

1871 H. Marshall For very Life II. vi. xi. 258 Ideas..are laid away in books, just as we find palaeosaurs in the rocks.

1890 Cent. Dict. Palæoselachian.

1957 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 68 469/1 Mapping of cross-bedding and other primary current structures has proved useful in reconstruction of regional paleoslopes.

1975 H. H. Read & J. Watson Introd. Geol. II. i. iv. 82 Remarkably constant palaeocurrent directions determined from current-bedding throughout the Athabasca formation indicate a palaeoslope towards the west or north-west.

1997 S. Afr. Jrnl. Geol. 100 223 All ice streams were deflected westwards as a result of the prominent regional palaeoslope.

1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 6 452 They [sc. the Eddaic poems] will afford a favourite text for commentary to all the antiquaries who shall in future busy themselves with arctic paleosophy.

1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 559 The whole range of the original writers on northern paleosophy.

1895 Amer. Naturalist 29 572 The modern cockroaches lay their eggs, generally, enclosed in an egg-bearing capsule; the Paleo-species, on the contrary, had an ovipositor and laid their eggs one by one as the grasshoppers do.

1944 Ecology 25 254/2 Paleospecies, so far from being usually broader than neospecies, are shown to be usually narrower.

1954 A. J. Cain Animal Species vii. 107 When good series are available, forms that seem to be good species at any one time may become indefinable since they are successive stages in a single evolutionary line... It is convenient to refer to such forms as palaeospecies.

2002 Nature 21 Mar. 317 African and Eurasian fossil hominids represent demes of a widespread palaeospecies.

1947 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 55 311 (caption) Paleotectonic maps of the Cordilleran region in late Paleozoic time. Cross-ruled area is the volcanic archipelago and orogenic belt. Horizontally ruled areas were uplifted and eroded during the period designated.

1996 Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 121 313 The Middle Eocene Cayraz Formation represents the youngest paleotectonic unit of the Haymana Basin.

1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 177 The palæo-volcanic rocks include the quartz-porphyries, quartz-free-porphyries, porphyrites, augite-porphyrites and melaphyres, and the pikrite-porphyrites.

1903 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4) I. ii. ii. 98 The older or palæo-volcanic are separated from the younger or neo-volcanic effusive rocks.

1982 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. 59 139 (heading) Clinopyroxene composition as a method of identification of the magmatic affinities of paleo-volcanic series.

1957 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 68 1870 (heading) Paleo-wind directions in late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic time on the Colorado Plateau as determined by cross-strata.

1975 Nature 3 Jan. 19/1 We recommend experimental and analytical study of these currents taking into account continental dispersion and palaeowinds.

1990 A. S. Trenhaile Geomorphol. Canada vii. 136 Sand dunes record palaeo-wind directions and other aspects of climate changes.