paleoclimate

[ pey-lee-oh-klahy-mit or, especially British, pal-ee- ]

/ ˌpeɪ li oʊˈklaɪ mɪt or, especially British, ˌpæl i- /

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noun

the climate of some former period of geologic time.

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Origin of paleoclimate

First recorded in 1920–25; paleo- + climate

Onac and his team initially planned only to extract paleoclimate data from the ice, but they found much more when they reached Cave 29.
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