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单词 shamvaian
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Shamvaianadj.

/ʃamˈvʌɪən/
Etymology: < Shamva + -ian suffix.
Geology.
Of or pertaining to rocks in the vicinity of Shamva, a town in northern Zimbabwe; spec. the epithet of a Pre-Cambrian mountain-building episode in southern Africa when these were affected.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > of prehistoric periods
prolepticala1646
ante-historical1724
ante-historic1828
lacustrine1830
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megalithic1839
subarctic1846
meta-historical1854
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lithic1862
protolithic1863
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microlithic1872
palaeocosmic1875
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archilithic1879
eneolithic1886
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eolithic1890
Hallstattian1893
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pre-Palaeolithic1894
palaeolithoid1896
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Villanova1901
chalcolithic1902
sub-Neolithic1903
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protoneolithic1906
Sicanian1909
Siculan1909
Aurignacian1914
Getulian1914
Châtelperron1915
epipalaeolithic1921
Creswellian1926
Capsian1928
Villanovan1928
Chelleo-Acheulean1930
Abbevillian1934
Swiderian1936
dryas1946
Shamvaian1947
Mazovian1965
Devensian1968
talayotic1974
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [adjective] > orogenesis > specific
hercynian1895
Laramide1895
Caledonian1903
Armorican1906
Variscan1906
Taconic1908
Saalian1931
Pfalzian1932
Shamvaian1947
pan-African1964
1947 A. M. Macgregor in Bull. S. Rhodesian Geol. Surv. No. 38. 8 Although the Shamva Grits of the Mazoe Valley were not the first to be described they occupy the largest continuous area... The name ‘Shamvaian’ is proposed.
1947 A. M. Macgregor in Bull. S. Rhodesian Geol. Surv. No. 38. 15 The Shamvaian rocks of the Bembesi valley are generally similar to the upper series at Que Que.
1951 Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Afr. 54 p. xxix The largest area of these rocks..is that of the Shamva grits in the Mazoe Valley which is selected as the type area of the Shamvaian system.
1964 A. E. Phaup in S. H. Haughton Geol. Ore Deposits S. Afr. II. 2 Some reefs may be pre-Bulawayan and pre-Shamvaian in age, but the majority are post-Shamvaian.
1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xxii. 317/1 At least seven major mountain-building events (periods of orogenesis) are recorded in Africa and are..(ii) 2500–2800 million years ago (Shamvaian orogeny); [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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