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Definition of Recent epoch
1. Noun. Approximately the last 10,000 years.
Group relationships: Age Of Man, Quaternary, Quaternary Period
Generic synonyms: Epoch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recent Epoch
Literary usage of Recent epoch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1896)
"... ERA—AGE OF MAN—recent epoch. Characteristics.—The Quaternary, and, indeed,
all previous ages, were reigns of brute force and animal ferocity. ..."
2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"... ERA—AGE OF MAN—recent epoch. Characteristics.—The Quaternary, and, indeed,
all previous ages, were reigns of brute force and animal ferocity. ..."
3. Elements of Geology by Eliot Blackwelder, Harlan Harland Barrows (1911)
"THE recent epoch Little change since the glaciers passed away. — By the departure
of the last ice sheet northern North America was left in very much its ..."
4. Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the by Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1833)
"... newer Pliocene formations, before alluded to, pass insensibly into those of
the recent epoch, and contain an immense preponderance of recent species. ..."
5. Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the by Charles Lyell (1833)
"... newer Pliocene formations, before alluded to, pass insensibly into those of
the recent epoch, and contain an immense preponderance of recent species. ..."
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