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Definition of Subepochs
1. subepoch [n] - See also: subepoch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subepochs
Literary usage of Subepochs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1902)
"... it appears that important changes in the form and height of the mountains,
due to a wearing down by erosion, took place between the glacial subepochs. ..."
2. Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington, Stephen Sargent Visher (1922)
"Fourth, the eccentricity hypothesis provides no adequate explanation for the
glacial stages or subepochs, the historic pulsations, and the other smaller ..."
3. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1881)
"... then it may also be true that the subdivision of tne glacial epoch into two
subepochs, with an interval of warmth, finds here a manifestation. ..."
4. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1891)
"... in the history of the continent, and thus divide the era into periods, and
periods into epochs, and epochs, it may be, into subepochs. Hence— Fifthly. ..."
5. The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California by Waldemar Lindgren, Frank Hall Knowlton (1911)
"... gravels belong to several subepochs, some of the earlier deposits forming long
swinging benches with low grade. Somewhat later the grade was increased ..."
6. The Texan Permian and Its Mesozoic Types of Fossils by Charles Abiathar White (1891)
"... in the history of the continent, and thus divide the era into periods, and
periods into epochs, and epochs, it may be, into subepochs, Hence— Fifthly. ..."
7. Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1918)
"A paper in the Sixth Annual Report makes a separation into several subepochs,
three of which are within the last or Wisconsin stage and based merely upon ..."
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