palaeogeographerpaleogeographern.
/ˌpalɪəʊˌdʒɪˈɒɡrəfə/, /ˌpeɪlɪəʊˌdʒɪˈɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /ˌpeɪlioʊˌdʒɪˈɑɡrəfər/; see also geographer n. An expert in or student of palaeogeography.
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palaeogeographer1881
1881 A. S. Packard & E. D. Cope in Amer. Naturalist 15 220 Mr King, assuming the rôle of a palaeogeographer, names the great inland lakes which successively occupied tracts of our continent.
1936 C. Croneis & W. C. Krumbein Down to Earth (1960) xxviii. 256 By using the various principles developed in the earlier chapters of this book, the trained paleogeographer evolves his ancient seas and older continents.
1992 New Scientist 6 June 30/1 Palaeogeographers cannot always take this sort of crustal shortening into account.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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