Amazonian epoch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The most recent of the Martian geologic epochs, from approximately 1.8 billion (1800 million) years ago (the end of the Hesperian epoch) to the present.

Word forms

Amazonian epoch the Amazonian epoch

Etymology

Named for Amazonis Planitia.

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