0 relating to or typical of the ancient period when people used tools and weapons made of stone: --
1 eating foods similar to those that would have been eaten in the paleo period: --
2 US spelling of palaeo- --
Each terrace is relatively level and many are footed by paleo-dunes.
Outcrops are also critically important for understanding fossil assemblages, paleo-environment, and evolution as they provide a record of relative changes within geologic strata.
He specialises in photo-realistic restorations of dinosaurs, paleo-environments and extant animals.
When ancient ventifacts are preserved without being moved or disturbed, they may serve as a paleo-wind indicators.
The proof of this is found in paleo-magnetic striping on the sea floor.
Some fossils can even provide details of how wet the sand was when they were being produced, and hence allow estimation of paleo-wind directions.
Ice thickness histories are useful in the study of paleoclimatology, glaciology and paleo-oceanography.
The experiment takes a sampling of climate, with some of trends lasting a million years, and as paleo-climatology shows, can abruptly change.
