Definitions

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  • noun The scientific study of pollen and spores, often ones that are fossilized.

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  • noun sciences The scientific study of spores, pollen and particulate organic matter in rocks.

Etymologies

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[Greek palunein, to sprinkle + –logy.]

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From Ancient Greek παλύνω (palúnō, "I sprinkle, scatter"), from πάλη (pálē, "fine meal, dust") and -logy.

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Examples

  • Keywords you might want to look up: paleoclimatology, ostracodes, palynology.

    Global Warming... 2009

  • Keywords you might want to look up: paleoclimatology, ostracodes, palynology.

    Global Warming... 2009

  • Studies of meteorology and palynology have been undertaken.

    Mount Kenya National Park and National Forest, Kenya 2009

  • She is now a professor emeritus of botany in the Biology Department at the University of Washington, with a distinguished career as a paleobotonist specializing in palynology, the study of fossil pollen.

    Aldo Leopold's Children 2009

  • The general evidence from vegetation types and changes as indicated in pollen studies palynology is a period of warmer winters, indeed some argue the warmest in post glacial times.

    Holocene Optimum « Climate Audit 2007

  • Long distance transport of wind blown pollen into areas of low pollen productivity such as arctic tundra is a well known problem in palynology.

    Gajewski, Mann and Warm Ice Age Arizona « Climate Audit 2007

  • Pollen analysis, or palynology, is a powerful technique for determining past climatic conditions, because—as any gardener knows—most plants and trees are fussy about things like temperature, sunlight, and water.

    The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

  • She directs the annual surveys in this region and closely cooperates with specialists in remote sensing, geomorphology and palynology to reconstruct landscape evolution throughout the centuries.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Staff Profiles 2003

  • The palynology and sedimentology of these deposits are studied by M. Vermoere and S.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Geomorphological Survey Report 2 2003

  • I wrote about goings-on in ichthyology, herpetology, four different archaeology departments, a Lepidoptera center and of course, vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology - oh, and ornithology, palynology and paleobotany too!

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

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  • Be calm and please give me your trust:
    While, true, it's a pest-laden gust,
    Palynology's not
    The horror you thought,
    But knowledge of organic dust.

    September 2, 2015