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- noun The past
environment of an area during a givenperiod of itshistory
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Examples
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Maybe there were to caught up in the sexiness of the CT scanner to think about the paleoenvironment ;
Jurassic Fight Club ReBecca Foster 2008
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These caves have complex life histories that, when properly reconstructed, form the core of our understandings of paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, and human occupation...
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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These caves have complex life histories that, when properly reconstructed, form the core of our understandings of paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, and human occupation...
Pinnacle Point (SA): Home to Fine Seafood Dining since 161993 BCE 2007
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We don't know much about the paleoenvironment on Flores yet, but everything's consistent with it being heavily rainforested back in the Pleistocene and probably heavily rainforested until agricultural humans arrived and started clearing the rainforest.
Boing Boing: October 24, 2004 - October 30, 2004 Archives 2004
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The new dates were obtained by an international project, begun in 1990, that is studying the cave's chronology, paleoenvironment, and paleoanthropology.
The Last Neandertals 1995
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Platybelodon grangeri, three growth stages, and a new serridentine from Mongolia Litho-, bio-, and magnetostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of Tunggur Formation middle Miocene in central Inner Mongolia, China
Wired Top Stories Brian Switek 2011
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"Sedimentation was unusually rapid and deep for this formation --- a pulse of sand, probably mobilized during a storm, resulted in the preservation of this spectacular association," said Peters, who interpreted the paleoenvironment of the site.
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"Sedimentation was unusually rapid and deep for this formation --- a pulse of sand, probably mobilized during a storm, resulted in the preservation of this spectacular association," said Peters, who interpreted the paleoenvironment of the site.
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Speleothems as high-resolution paleoenvironment archives: Records from northeastern China.
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