Quaternarist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A specialist in the Quaternary period.

    "Indeed, in recent years, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) "abolished" the Quaternary, according to riled quaternarists."

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"Indeed, in recent years, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) "abolished" the Quaternary, according to riled quaternarists."

Etymology

From Quaternary + -ist.

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