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单词 palaeogeography
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Definition of palaeogeography in English:

palaeogeography

(US paleogeography)
noun ˌpeɪlɪəʊdʒɪˈɒɡrəfiˌpalɪəʊdʒɪˈɒɡrəfiˌpālēōjēˈäɡrəfē
mass noun
  • The study of geographical features at periods in the geological past.

    古地理学

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Moreover, the collections have played an integral role in understanding western North American paleogeography, and the past climatic changes that have shaped this region's modern biota.
    • However, the interrelationship between tectonic activity, global sea level change, and the change of paleogeography played a significant role.
    • The science of paleogeography has improved immeasurably over the last few decades.
    • The Late Jurassic palaeogeography of the northern Antarctic Peninsula region has been the focus of a series of studies in the last two decades.
    • These are also the areas in which the traditional use of invertebrate macrofossils in biostratigraphy and paleogeography offers the potential for resolving major geological debates.

Derivatives

  • palaeogeographer

  • noun
    • Initially, the biologists met up a palaeogeographer who predicted what the world map was going to look like in the future.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Since the physical structures of the Earth's surface have changed over geologic time, palaeogeographers have coined various names for ancient regions that no longer exist.
  • palaeogeographical

  • adjective ˌpeɪlɪəʊdʒɪəˈɡrafɪk(ə)lˌpalɪəʊdʒɪəˈɡrafɪk(ə)l
    • But the principles underlying these approaches to palaeogeographical reconstruction are very different and worth reiterating here.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The sum of the species occurrences represents the paleogeographical occurrence of a genus.
      • Considerable progress has been made in determining the palaeogeographical positions of major continents throughout Phanerozoic time.
      • Most palaeogeographical data are conveyed on palaeogeographical maps, which can include a palaeogeological map designed to show the outcrop pattern during a particular past time-span.
      • The modern sites of the terrane boundaries bear little direct relationships to the original palaeogeographical boundaries in the Early Palaeozoic.

Definition of paleogeography in US English:

paleogeography

(British palaeogeography)
nounˌpālēōjēˈäɡrəfē
  • The study of geographical features at particular times in the geological past.

    古地理学

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The science of paleogeography has improved immeasurably over the last few decades.
    • However, the interrelationship between tectonic activity, global sea level change, and the change of paleogeography played a significant role.
    • The Late Jurassic palaeogeography of the northern Antarctic Peninsula region has been the focus of a series of studies in the last two decades.
    • These are also the areas in which the traditional use of invertebrate macrofossils in biostratigraphy and paleogeography offers the potential for resolving major geological debates.
    • Moreover, the collections have played an integral role in understanding western North American paleogeography, and the past climatic changes that have shaped this region's modern biota.
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