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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The study of the physical geography of past periods of the earth's history, founded as a distinct branch of geology by Canu in 1895, although the name had been employed before that date.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of palaeogeography.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs

Etymologies

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paleo- +‎ geography

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Examples

  • Coolly testing hypotheses and assessing evidence across an impressive range of disciplines — neuroscience, primate behavior, paleogeography, molecular biology, and genetics — she argues that our distant primate relatives developed their exceptional ability to see and identify “objects that were close by and in front of them” in order to detect and avoid what was almost certainly their most dangerous predator — the snake.

    Cover to Cover 2010

  • Coolly testing hypotheses and assessing evidence across an impressive range of disciplines — neuroscience, primate behavior, paleogeography, molecular biology, and genetics — she argues that our distant primate relatives developed their exceptional ability to see and identify “objects that were close by and in front of them” in order to detect and avoid what was almost certainly their most dangerous predator — the snake.

    Cover to Cover 2010

  • Coolly testing hypotheses and assessing evidence across an impressive range of disciplines — neuroscience, primate behavior, paleogeography, molecular biology, and genetics — she argues that our distant primate relatives developed their exceptional ability to see and identify “objects that were close by and in front of them” in order to detect and avoid what was almost certainly their most dangerous predator — the snake.

    Cover to Cover 2010

  • Late Quaternary paleogeography and evolution of Arctic breeding waders.

    Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009

  • Cryostratigraphy, paleogeography, and climate change during the early Holocene warm interval, western Arctic coast, Canada.

    Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009

  • Yannick Donnadieu and I have a paper coming out in EPSL in a few months where we study runoff changes throughout the Cretaceous, and find a very strong effect of the paleogeography, which can be stronger than the effect of CO2. –raypierre

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Economic Climate Change Denialism: 2009

  • Relying on the complex paleogeography of the Mediterranean area, Altaba proposes that Mastus, Mauronapaeus and Balearena are products of vicariance events.

    A fossil snail fits in between, or, maybe not AYDIN 2008

  • Relying on the complex paleogeography of the Mediterranean area, Altaba proposes that Mastus, Mauronapaeus and Balearena are products of vicariance events.

    Archive 2008-07-01 AYDIN 2008

  • A preliminary review of dental evolution and paleogeography in the zapodid rodents, with emphasis on Pliocene and Pleistocene taxa.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • [History of vegetation development and paleogeography of lower Irtysh River].

    West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests 2008

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