Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fossil large enough to be examined without a microscope.
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- noun Any
fossil large enough to be examined without a microscope.
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Examples
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Current "macrofossil" evidence places the last-known mammoths and wild horses between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago.
Livescience.com 2009
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Current "macrofossil" evidence places the last-known mammoths and wild horses between 13,000 and 15,000 years ago.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Current "macrofossil" evidence places the last-known mammoths and wild horses between 13,000 and 15,000 years ago.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Palaeoclimate and tree-line changes during the Holocene based on pollen and plant macrofossil records from six lakes at different altitudes in northern Sweden.
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Pollen and macrofossil records from the Torneträsk area in northern Swedish Lapland indicate optimal conditions for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) from 6.3 to 4.5 ky BP [89] and records of treeline change in northern Sweden show high-elevation treelines around 6 ky BP [90].
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Wisconsin environment of Interior Alaska: Pollen and macrofossil analysis of a 27 meter core from the Isabella Basin (Fairbanks, Alaska).
Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic 2009
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I haven't finished it yet finals, bleh, but I think it's definitely a useful book for anyone who's going to work on macrofossil accumulations.
Books part 2: What I am currently reading ReBecca Foster 2008
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There is a huge amount of evidence from a variety of independent proxies pollen and plant macrofossil data on land, diatoms, forams and alkenones in the ocean that high-latitude northern summers were warmer in the early Holocene.
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(Hessen, central-west Germany) and the local impact of early Mesolithic people-pollen and macrofossil evidence.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010
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(Hessen, central-west Germany) and the local impact of early Mesolithic people-pollen and macrofossil evidence.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anne-Laure Daniau et al. 2010
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