Amazonian epoch

English

Etymology

Named for Amazonis Planitia.

Proper noun

the Amazonian epoch

  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.

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