Zanclean
Zanclean proper noun: a geological subdivision, the earliest age of the Pliocene epoch.
Proper noun
Zanclean
- A geological subdivision, the earliest age of the Pliocene epoch.
- The Pliocene is found at a much greater elevation than any of the other Tertiary series, reaching in the Zanclean to 1200 mètres above the sea, and as the conditions of deposition were quite different here from those which obtained in north Italy, the series in one part of the peninsula forms a...1881, "A. W. W.", Notices of Memoirs: I.—Tertiary Geology of the Reggiano (Calabria), in Henry Woodward (editor), Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade 2, Volume 8, Trübner & Co., page 324
- In the first case the Early Pliocene coincides with the Zanclean and its upper boundary with the last occurrence of Globorotalia margaritae (Mazzei et al., 1978).1989, Silvia Iaccarino, “8: Mediterranean Miocene and Pliocene planktic foraminifera”, in Hans M. Bolli, John B. Saunders, Katharina Perch-Nielsen, editors, Plankton Stratigraphy, Volume 1, Cambridge...
Origin of Zanclean
From Ancient Greek Ζάγκλη (Zánklē), the name originally given to the city of Messina, Sicily, by its ancient Greek founders. (Compare Messinian, the preceding age.)
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Questions about Zanclean
- What does Zanclean mean?
- Zanclean means a geological subdivision, the earliest age of the Pliocene epoch.
- What part of speech is Zanclean?
- Zanclean is a proper noun.
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