Definition of Subepoch

1. Noun. A geological epoch that makes up part of a larger epoch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subepoch

1. a subdivision of an epoch [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subepoch

subendothelial
subendothelium
subendymal
subensemble
subentities
subentity
subentries
subentry
subependymal
subepicardial
subepidermal
subepiglottic
subepithelia
subepithelial
subepithelium
subepoch (current term)
subepochs
subequal
subequation
subequations
subequatorial
suber
suberate
suberates
suberect
suberic
suberic acid
suberin
suberins
suberise

Literary usage of Subepoch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1896)
"Portions of the river alluvium of the subsequent Florence subepoch of the Columbia deposits of the same region contain as much as fifty shells per cubic ..."

2. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1896)
"Portions of the river alluvium of the subsequent Florence subepoch of the Columbia deposits of the same region contain as much as fifty shells per cubic ..."

3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"... beginning long before the appearance of the first flood-plain deposits, continued at a comparatively •even rate through the Florence subepoch, ..."

4. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1896)
"Portions of the river alluvium of the subsequent Florence subepoch of the Columbia deposits of the same region contain as much as fifty shells per cubic ..."

5. Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 by Edward Carlos Carter (1999)
"From the 1940s, acceptance spread internationally for the present tripartite distinction of chronologic (era, period, epoch, subepoch), chronostratigraphic ..."

6. Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 by Edward Carlos Carter (1999)
"From the 1940s, acceptance spread internationally for the present tripartite distinction of chronologic (era, period, epoch, subepoch), chronostratigraphic ..."

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