quaternarist
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Quaternary + -ist.
Noun
[edit]quaternarist (plural quaternarists)
- (geology, paleontology) A specialist in the Quaternary period.
- 2008 January 25, Richard A. Kerr, “A Time War Over the Period We Live In”, in Science[1], 319(5862), page 402:
- Indeed, in recent years, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) "abolished" the Quaternary, according to riled quaternarists.