epoch

The same temperature-related patterns that once defined dinosaur ecosystems continued into the Paleocene epoch, guiding how life recovered after the disaster.

Using this data, the team reconstructed ocean changes stretching back almost 12,000 years to the start of the Holocene epoch, which began after the last major ice age.

In the first document, Mr Collins sets out that the government at the time saw China as an "evolving and epoch defining challenge".

At the time, despite Picasso’s global renown, few collectors had the mettle for the revolutionary but difficult Cubist epoch.

As Dickens prophetically reminds us, ours is hardly the first age of wisdom and of foolishness, the first epoch of belief and of incredulity.