Showing posts with label Zanclean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zanclean. Show all posts

Monday, May 23, 2011

Geology Word of the Week: Z is for Zanclean

 Note: This is a modified version of a post that originally appeared on Skepchick in 2010.

Geologic Timescale Spiral. Image courtesy of USGS. Taken from Wikipedia here. Click to enlarge.
def. Zanclean:
A geologic Age spanning from ~5.33 million years ago to ~3.60 million years ago in the Pliocene Epoch.