cenozone

plural cenozones

1. A stratum containing a characteristic association of minerals and microfossils.

   Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic , mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.

   1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229

   2 more examples

   Because of this I have proposed (Ruggieri, 1961) a lower cenozone for the Pleistocene characterized by the presence of A. islandica but by the absence of H. balthica.

   1965, Herbert Edgar Wright, David Grover Frey, International Studies on the Quaternary, page 145

   This cenozone is about 30 m thick (Subathu Section) and consists of greenish grey, calcareous splintery shales which may change to pale olive green shale facies in other sections.

   1981, The Palaeobotanist - Volumes 28-29, page 395