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kyr

kyr

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A period of one thousand years
  • noun
  • /kaɪər/
  • Specialized
: kyr
  • Geologists often refer to the last ice age, which occurred around 20 kyr ago, to understand climate change.
  • 100 kyr
  • kyr cycle
  • 41 kyr

Examples

  • The study analyzed sediment layers that covered a span of nearly 500 kyr, providing valuable insights into geological shifts.

  • Strong coherence between solar variability and the monsoon in Oman between 9 and 6 kyr ago.

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  • The influence (power) of the 100-kyr-like cycles weakens towards the MPT.

    Academic text (2018)

  • A 200 kyr moving average smoothing was applied (bold line) to reveal the long-term trends.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The presence of tilt (41 kyr cycle) in the spectral analysis throughout the record, on the other hand, confirms our age model approach.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Sedimentation rates vary between 1.15 and 7.7 cm/kyr; see PDF for image.

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  • The fossils were dated to be approximately 100,000 kyr old, indicating a significant period in Earth's history.

Surface Forms

kyr singular
kyrs plural

Etymology

The word kyr is a short form made from k (as in kilo) meaning 'thousand' and yr meaning 'year'. So kyr simply means 'thousand years' and is used to talk about very long times in geology and astronomy.