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Definition of pliosen in Turkish English dictionary
- pliocene
- A warm epoch with only limited glaciation The mid-Pliocene was the last time that comparable temperatures existed to those predicted by General Circulation Models to take place within 300 years Preciptation was greater than at present, including in the arid regions of Middle Asia and Northern Africa, where temperatures were lower than at present in summer (Source: Mintzer, 1992)
- from 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals
- Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age
- Final epoch of the Tertiary period, spanning the time between 5 3 and 1 8 million years ago It is named after the Greek words "pleion" (more) and "ceno" (new)
- The period of geologic time that began about ten million years ago and ended approximately two or three million years ago
- The Pliocene period or deposits
- an epoch of the Tertiary period, after the Miocene and before the Pleistocene; also, the corresponding worldwide series of rocks