单词 | palaeoclimatology |
释义 | palaeoclimatologypaleoclimatologyn. The branch of science that deals with climates of the past. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > climatology > types of climatology bioclimatology1910 palaeoclimatology1916 bioclimatics1921 microclimatology1934 dendroclimatology1953 palaeothermometry1957 1916 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 21 537 Law..is a training common to a dozen sciences that aim to reconstruct the past, including geology, paleoclimatology, [etc.]. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 690/2 Most research in paleoclimatology centres on explaining (1) the warmth of the Northern Hemisphere land masses during at least 90 per cent of the last 570,000,000 years, (2) the semiperiodic occurrence of widespread glaciation.., and (3) the irregular advances and retreats of the ice sheets during the glacial periods. 1990 P. Kearey & F. J. Vine Global Tectonics iii. 47 Palaeoclimatology, the study of past climates..may be used to demonstrate that continents have drifted at least in a north-south sense. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1916 |
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