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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to tho Pliocene period of Tertiary time.

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  • [Footnote: Able geologists infer from recent investigations, that, although the Arno flowed to the south within the pliocenic period, the direction of its course was changed at an earlier epoch than that supposed in the text.]

    The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

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