Quaternary

See also: quaternary

English

Etymology

From French Quaternaire.

Proper noun

Quaternary

1. (geology) The geological period of the Cenozoic Era immediately following the Tertiary. It is subdivided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene Epochs.

Translations

geological period

• Catalan: quaternari m
• Czech: čtvrtohory pl, kvartér (cs) m
• Dutch: Kwartair (nl) n
• Finnish: kvartäärikausi
• French: quaternaire (fr) m
• Georgian: მეოთხეული (meotxeuli), მეოთხეული სისტემა (meotxeuli sisṭema), მეოთხეული პერიოდი (meotxeuli ṗeriodi)
• German: Quartär (de) n
• Italian: quaternario (it) m
• Japanese: 第四紀 (daiyonki)
• Polish: czwartorzęd (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Quaternário m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: Четвертичный пери́од m (Četvertičnyj períod)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: Kvartar

• Slovak: Kvartér
• Slovene: Kvartar
• Spanish: Cuaternario (es) m
• Swedish: kvartär (sv) c
• Ukrainian: Антропогенова система f (Antropohenova systema)
• Vietnamese: kỉ Đệ Tứ

See also

• Neogene
• Tertiary