Meanings of geological epoch in anglès

But the Anthropocene, our new geological epoch, has changed everything.

TERTIARY.-Thelatest geological epoch, immediately preceding the establishment of the present order of things.

The doors opened a geological epoch later, onto a scene as incongruous as a gorilla in a garter belt.

Such immense caves exist in various parts of the world, natural crypts dating from the geological epoch of the globe.

This geological epoch was characterized by cool and arid conditions, which may have triggered the origin of bacterial leaf symbiosis.

This important period encompassing the past 12,000 years is referred to as the Holocene geological epoch.

If there is to be a new geological epoch, with a new type of man, it will be the Christian epoch.

Were the organized species of one geological epoch, by some long-continued agency of natural causes, transmuted into other and succeeding species?

Underscoring scientific concerns about humanity's global environmental impact, there is a movement to rename our current geological epoch the "Anthropocene".

We now live in the Anthropocene -a geological epoch in which Earth's atmosphere, lithosphere and biosphere are shaped primarily by human forces.

I do not forget that such buildings have foundations that are to us almost like fossils; the gigantic fossils of some other geological epoch.

Then may not the new species of a later geological epoch be the modified lineal descendants of the extinct population of an earlier epoch?

Such a desire could have led to a society whose timescale rivalled geological epochs.

Similar to the way sediment layers in planetary core samples show various geological epochs.

But not even geological epochs, it will be observed, are assigned to the maps.

Read in a geology about the different geological epochs in the history of the earth.