单词 | secule |
释义 | seculen. Geology. Obsolete. A period of geological time corresponding to a stratigraphical zone; = moment n. 2d. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > other ages or periods terrace-epoch1863 youth1896 secule1903 pluvial1929 interpluvial1931 intrapluvial1939 salinity crisis1967 1903 A. J. Jukes-Browne in Geol. Mag. X. 37 The term hemera may, however, be occasionally convenient to signify the duration of a subzone, as age signifies the duration of a stage, but if we want to avoid confusion we must not speak of the hemera of a zone. For this another word should be coined..I would suggest that the Latin word seculum will furnish us with ‘secule’ which finds an actual French equivalent in siècle. 1933 W. J. Arkell Jurassic Syst. Great Brit. i. 21 Several hemeræ may be contained in one secule or zone-moment. 1956 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 254 459 Schindewolf reasserts..his extreme view..that the zone as conceived by Oppel was a purely chronological notion and that the term zone should be used only as a time term (= secule). 1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles ii. 23 A zone is defined as strata deposited during an interval of time (known as a secule or moment, though these terms are not widely used) throughout which a particular faunal or floral assemblage existed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1903 |
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