Use "pleistocene" in a sentence

1. It is middle Pleistocene in age.

2. These are thought to be Pleistocene rocks.

3. Alleyite, was discovered in late Pleistocene (~10,000 years) 51

4. The Pleistocene covers the recent period of repeated glaciations.

5. Megaderma watwat: Discovered in Palestine; dated from the Pleistocene.

6. The most recent ice age was during the pleistocene.

7. The Pleistocene lasted from 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago.

8. Of Pleistocene Cardiids (D’Abramo 2007), another Acanthocardia species was detected

9. In the Late Pleistocene, Beringia was a mosaic of biological communities.

10. We know that some of man's close ancestors predated the Pleistocene.

11. The repeated glaciations of the Pleistocene were caused by the same factors.

12. During the Pleistocene epoch, about 12 antilocaprid species existed in North America.

13. Crocodylus anthropophagus is an extinct species of crocodile from Plio-Pleistocene from Tanzania.

14. 15 Their tectonic framework was basically underlain in early Pleistocene or late Pliocene.

15. Smilodon lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 mya–10,000 years ago).

16. There are two main issues in the study of the Middle Pleistocene sequence.

17. 10 Stage 3 , early Pleistocene, anticlockwise rotation of Luzon arc and continent - arc collision.

18. Given current attention spans, it may as well have come out during the Pleistocene.

19. Three stages of lava flow emanate from the volcano, which formed on Pleistocene ignimbrites.

20. Later the San Bartolo and Silapeti groups were generated, ending by the early Pleistocene.

21. Carletonomys cailoi is an extinct rodent from the Pleistocene (Ensenadan) of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

22. It was finally breached by the sea flooding through valleys late in the Pleistocene.

23. This surface is considered to represent the contact of postglacial estuarine alluvium with Pleistocene sediments.

24. 6 Fault depression took place in Pliocene and the Qinghai Lake formed in Middle Pleistocene.

25. Owing to climate was being droughty from terminal late Pleistocene, so Aibihu Lake ceaselessly shrank.

26. The writer knows no completely credible geochemical documentation of any effective Pleistocene oil source beds.

27. During the Pleistocene, Stone Age man appeared on the scene in Java and spread quickly.

28. A goose fossil from the Early-Middle Pleistocene of El Salvador is highly similar to Anser.

29. The bottom limit of the four cycles of accumulation corresponds to the bottom limit of Pleistocene.

30. Anhinga hadarensis Brodkorb & Mourer-Chauviré, 1982 (Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene of E Africa) Anhinga beckeri Emslie, 1998 (Early – Late Pleistocene of SE US) Protoplotus, a small Paleogene phalacrocoraciform from Sumatra, was in old times considered a primitive darter.

31. Bison palaeosinensis evolved in the Early Pleistocene in South Asia, and was the evolutionary ancestor of B

32. However, the species itself is quite young, with the oldest fossils coming from the Pleistocene of Florida.

33. Because the foreland basin was a highly subsidence, that it was deposited a hugely Plio - Pleistocene sediments.

34. Along with most of the Pleistocene megafauna, Smilodon became extinct 10,000 years ago in the Quaternary extinction event.

35. These late Neoglacial terminal moraines appear, in general, to mark the greatest post-Pleistocene extent of the glaciers.

36. It seems that the effect of Pleistocene sea levels may, in fact, be evident on a more modest scale.

37. The Abbevillian industry dates from an imprecisely determined part of the Pleistocene Epoch, somewhat less than 700,000 years ago.

38. Here you see a Pleistocene vision, life as it must have looked before humans stepped upright on to the savannah.

39. The excursion will focus on Late Pleistocene loess-palaeosol sequences in the area and the differentiation of coeval lithostratigraphic units.

40. S. gracilis reached the northern regions of South America in the Early Pleistocene as part of the Great American Interchange.

41. During the Pleistocene, the Greater Sunda Islands were connected to the Asian mainland while New Guinea was connected to Australia.

42. Karimata Strait, Java Sea and Arafura Sea were formed as the sea level rose at the end of the Pleistocene.

43. During the Pleistocene period, Britain's climate ranged from warm-temperate to very cold during the several advances of ice sheets.

44. This summer will see 000 Friends of the Pleistocene swarming over the coastal range, whacking away with their hammers. Sentencedict.com

45. 4 Any of various extinct ungulate mammals of the Eocene to Pleistocene epochs, having distinctive three-clawed, three-toed feet.

46. The gradual formation of dense forest likely caused the decline of its geographic range near the end of the Late Pleistocene.

47. The Culmination of the cooling trend was the Pleistocene epoch, or Great Ice Age, of the last 1.8 million years

48. A Middle Pleistocene Abrading tool from Tabun Cave, Israel: A search for the roots of Abrading technology in human evolution

49. Ice Age, the Pleistocene epoch of geologic time, during which periodic, extensive glacial activity occurred in many parts of the world.

50. Gigantopithecus is an extinct genus of Ape from the Early to Middle Pleistocene of southern China, represented by one species, G

51. Palynostratigraphic correlations and dating of the sediments are problematic, but there are indications of a pre-late Pleistocene age for the accumulation.

52. Smilodon lived during the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 mya–10,000 years ago), and was perhaps the most recent of the saber-toothed cats.

53. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of early Miocene through early Pleistocene Benthonic and planktonic Foraminifera, San Joaquin Hills-Newport Bay-Dana Point area, Orange County, California

54. A form similar to Panthera gombaszoegensis has been found dating from early Pleistocene East Africa and had both lion- and tiger-like characteristics.

55. The region forms part of the old Iberian plateau, with sandy clay soils of the lacustrine pleistocene era and modern alluvial soils (lowlands).

56. 12 A large extinct European deer of the genus Megaceros of the Pliocene Epoch and the Pleistocene Epoch, having very large palmate antlers.

57. Aepyornis definition, an extinct genus of ratite birds, best known from the Pleistocene Epoch of Madagascar, having massive legs and rudimentary wings, and growing to …

58. S. fatalis also entered western South America in the late Pleistocene, and the two species were thought to be divided by the Andes mountains.

59. Subsequent investigations of Pleistocene alluvial terraces revealed hearths about 31,000 years BP, making Keilor one of the earliest sites of human habitation in Australia.

60. Anhinga beckeri Emslie, 1998 (Early – Late Pleistocene of SE US) Protoplotus, a small Paleogene phalacrocoraciform from Sumatra, was in old times considered a primitive darter

61. In fact, fossil finds in the 20th century have shown that B. mindorensis were once found on the northern Philippine island of Luzon during the Pleistocene.

62. During the emergence of the area at the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary, low angle thrusting, dissolution cleavage and open NNW to NNE trending folds, were developed.

63. The occurrence of the Middle Pleistocene extension along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau may be the response to postorogenic collapse of this marginal zone.

64. Apart from these, fossils have also been excavated from Mittleres Wadi Howar (6300 BCE fossil), and Pleistocene fossils from Grotte Neandertaliens, Jebel Irhoud and Parc d'Hydra.

65. Sand deposit is due to the existence of a wide alluvial plain formed in the Pleistocene Era by the matter flowing down the canyon of Fataga.

66. Particular care was given to the characterization of a confined gravelly aquifer lying at the base of the upper Pleistocene–Holocene alluvium that fills the Tiber Valley.

67. S. gracilis entered South America during the early to middle Pleistocene, where it probably gave rise to S. populator, which lived in the eastern part of the continent.

68. 8 During the Pliocene to early Pleistocene strong NW-SE crustal extension resulted in disintegration of the planation geomorphology and formation of a graben basin in the area.

69. Acheulean definition, of, relating to, or typical of a Lower Paleolithic culture of the middle Pleistocene Epoch, characterized by large hand axes and cleavers made by the soft hammer technique

70. A comparative analysis of the material, represented by cranial and postcranial parts, including the dorsal carapace and caudal rings, suggests a close affinity withGlyptotherium cylindricum (Late Pleistocene of Central Mexico).

71. On gravel and sand, there are alluvial soils on a Holocene terrace and brown soils on a Pleistocene terrace, whereas on clay and loam there are brown pseudogleys and anthrosols.

72. The earliest known use of Adhesives was discovered in central Italy when two stone flakes partially covered with birch-bark tar and a third uncovered stone from the Middle Pleistocene era (circa 200,000 years ago) were found

73. The Plio-Pleistocene Wouri alluvial aquifer, a multi-layer system with alternating sequences of marine sands and estuarine mud and silt lies below the estuary and surrounding region and is an important source of well water.

74. Analysis of DNA is consistent with the hypothesis that Sumatran tigers became isolated from other tiger populations after a rise in sea level that occurred at the Pleistocene to Holocene border about 12,000–6,000 years ago.

75. These observations (1) demonstrate the adverse effects of high pore pressures on the stability of slopes underlain by poorly indurated Tertiary rocks and (2) extend the known history of landslides involving these rocks back into the Pleistocene.

76. Trends in groundwater level (1995–2009) in 57 wells in the Holocene unconfined aquifer and 63 wells in the Pleistocene confined aquifer were determined by applying the non-parametric Mann-Kendall trend test and Sen’s slope estimator.

77. But the oscillations of that level motivated by changes of the ice accumulation correspond to a curve superposed over another one, that shows an uninterrupted descent of the sea-level since the beginning of the pleistocene epoch.

78. This is consistent with the lack of tiger fossils from the Indian subcontinent prior to the late Pleistocene, and the absence of tigers from Sri Lanka, which was separated from the subcontinent by rising sea levels in the early Holocene.

79. The earliest fossils of the short-beaked echidna date back around 15 million years ago to the Pleistocene era, and the oldest specimens were found in caves in South Australia, often with fossils of the long-beaked echidna from the same period.

80. The valleys of the Indre and its tributaries, which have cut the base of the limestone plateau during alternating glacial and interglacial periods of the Pleistocene, are covered with recent alluvium, giving the soil a hydromorphous tendency, often with a shallow water table.