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Palaetiology

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Noun
  1. 1
    The science that explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the Earth. archaic, uncountable
  2. 2
    the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes) wordnet

Etymology

From palaeo- + aetiology. Coined by William Whewell.

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