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palaeoatmosphere

palaeoatmosphere is the alternative form of paleoatmosphere.

Meaning of paleoatmosphere

Noun

paleoatmosphere (plural paleoatmospheres)

  1. An atmosphere, particularly that of Earth, at some unspecified time in the geological past.
    • Of the various paleorecords available to science, ice cores from polar and high altitude ice sheets provide the most direct and highest resolution view of paleoatmospheres.2013, Robert J. Delmas, Ice Core Studies of Global Biogeochemical Cycles, page 384

Forms of palaeoatmosphere

pluralpalaeoatmospheres

Origin of palaeoatmosphere

From palaeo- + atmosphere.

Questions about palaeoatmosphere

What is palaeoatmosphere the alternative form of?
Palaeoatmosphere is the alternative form of paleoatmosphere.

Words near palaeoatmosphere in the dictionary

  1. palaeoarchaeology
  2. palaeoarches
  3. palaeoart
  4. palaeoartist
  5. palaeoartists
  6. palaeoatmosphere
  7. palaeoatmospheres
  8. palaeoatmospheric
  9. palaeobasin
  10. palaeobasins
  11. palaeobathymetric

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palaeoatmosphere (page history and authors); paleoatmosphere (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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