cenozoic
Speech parts
1. cenozoic - Noun
2. cenozoic - Adjective
3. Cenozoic - Proper noun
Meaning
Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
According to geologist Stefan Schmid, because the Western Alps underwent a metamorphic event in the Cenozoic Era while the Austroalpine peaks underwent an event in the Cretaceous Period, the two areas show distinct differences in nappe formations.
CO 2 models suggest that values were low in the late Cenozoic and Carboniferous Permian glaciations.
In 2009, it was decided to make the Quaternary the youngest period of the Cenozoic Era with its base at 2.588 Mya and including the Gelasian stage, which was formerly considered part of the Neogene Period and Pliocene Epoch.
All Permian (and older) ocean-floor deposits and thick sedimentary wedges have been caught up in Mesozoic and Cenozoic along plate boundaries and either form accretionary wedges or were lost to the Earth’s mantle.
Fossil record This is, geologically speaking, rather a young group, having evolved from the Late Paleocene in the Cenozoic Era.
He joined the ongoing excavations of the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian as an advisor in 1926 and continued in the role for the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China following its founding in 1928.