Pliocene

How To Use Pliocene In A Sentence

• For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
• From Pliocene time the shallow emplacement of intrusive bodies resulted in thermal metamorphism (forming, for example, biotite, cordierite, andalusite, K-feldspar and corundum in pelites) and hydrothermal activity.
• The JOIDES Resolution expedition to Wilkes Land is investigating some of these, such as the Pliocene, about 3 million years ago, when the world was on average 3 C (5.4 F) warmer than today.
• Neogene" of Hörnes (1853) included the Miocene and Pliocene periods; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• In general, species richness in the Miocene and Pliocene was high whereas Pleistocene and Recent diversity is very low.
• During the Pliocene, Paratethys was linked to the Arctic Ocean via a seaway just west of the Urals, apparently, and accordingly it has been proposed that the Ringed seal of the Arctic Ocean descends from a phocine that migrated north from the Paratethys (Ray 1976, Grigorescu 1977) [adjacent image shows a Ringed seal]. The most inconvenient seal
• The strata next below the Pleistocene gravels and cave deposits are ascribed to the "Pliocene age" -- older than these are the "Miocene" and the "Eocene," and then you come to the Chalk, a good white landmark separating newer from older strata. More Science From an Easy Chair
• In the gastropods groups I surveyed, 124 taxa at the subgenus and species-group level occurred in the Gatunian Province during the late Miocene and early Pliocene.
• the zoology of the Pliocene epoch
• The Pliocene is a more interesting case but note the dinos I was talking about are back in the Cretaceous, so we’re talking about different climates here. The Volokh Conspiracy » Economic Climate Change Denialism: