paleoatmosphere
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
paleo- + atmosphere
Noun[edit]
paleoatmosphere (plural paleoatmospheres)
- An atmosphere, particularly that of Earth, at some unspecified time in the geological past.
- 2013, Robert J. Delmas, Ice Core Studies of Global Biogeochemical Cycles, page 384:
- Of the various paleorecords available to science, ice cores from polar and high altitude ice sheets provide the most direct and highest resolution view of paleoatmospheres.
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Translations[edit]
atmosphere in the geological past
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