Paleotemperature

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Noun
  1. 1
    The temperature at a location in the geologic past

    "It is thus possible to use the position of the data on the profile to estimate the palaeotemperature of each sample at 40 Ma."

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"It is thus possible to use the position of the data on the profile to estimate the palaeotemperature of each sample at 40 Ma."

Etymology

From paleo- + temperature.

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