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English
Etymology
From Quaternary + -ist.
Noun
quaternarist (plural quaternarists)
- (geology, paleontology) A specialist in the Quaternary period.
2008 January 25, Richard A. Kerr, “A Time War Over the Period We Live In”, in Science, 319(5862), page 402:Indeed, in recent years, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) "abolished" the Quaternary, according to riled quaternarists.