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cenozone

cenozone noun: a stratum containing a characteristic association of minerals and microfossils.

Noun

cenozone (plural cenozones)

  1. A stratum containing a characteristic association of minerals and microfossils.
    • Because of this I have proposed (Ruggieri, 1961) a lower cenozone for the Pleistocene characterized by the presence of A. islandica but by the absence of H. balthica.1965, Herbert Edgar Wright, David Grover Frey, International Studies on the Quaternary, page 145
    • Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic , mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229

Forms of cenozone

pluralcenozones

Questions about cenozone

What does cenozone mean?
Cenozone means a stratum containing a characteristic association of minerals and microfossils.
What part of speech is cenozone?
Cenozone is a noun.
What is the plural of cenozone?
The plural of cenozone is cenozones.

Words near cenozone in the dictionary

  1. cenotaphy
  2. cenote
  3. cenotes
  4. Cenovis
  5. Cenozoic
  6. cenozone
  7. cenozones
  8. Cens
  9. censae
  10. censal
  11. cense

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