English > Quaternary period: 1 sense > noun 1, timeMeaning | last 2 million years. |
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Synonyms | Quaternary, Age of Man |
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Instance of | period, geological period | A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed |
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Part of | Cenozoic, Cenozoic era, Age of Mammals | approximately the last 63 million years |
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Parts | Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch | approximately the last 10,000 years |
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Pleistocene, Pleistocene epoch, Glacial epoch | From two million to 11 thousand years ago |
Spanish | cuaternario, Cuaternario, Era Cuaternaria |
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Catalan | quaternari |
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