post-Pliocene

• a word derived from Pliocene.
  Pliocene

  adjective

  noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occurring from 10 to 2 million years ago, and characterized by increased size and numbers of mammals, by the growth of mountains, and by global climatic cooling.

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post-Pliocene

It is sometimes used in a wider sense to denote all post-Pliocene sands, gravels, and clays, such as the superficial deposits shown on the 'drift' maps of the Geological Survey.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

I much like the term post-Pliocene, and will use it in my present paper several times.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin

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