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megamonsoon en · NOUN

Etymology

From mega- + monsoon.

Meanings

1. An extremely intense and widespread monsoon.
   • First, the supercontinent Pangea led to a broad land-monsoon area (i.e., megamonsoon), but with modest monsoonal precipitation. Later, highly fragmented continents in the Cretaceous caused a much smaller land-monsoon area, but with much heavier monsoon precipitation. 2023 October 25, Li Yuan, “Study reveals transition from Pangea megamonsoon to modern global monsoon”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2023:
   • During the period in which it lived approximately 247 to 231 million years ago, it was exposed to devastating equatorial heat and megamonsoons. 2024 November 28, Jeanne Timmons, “A Fossil Gets Its Name From a Revived Indigenous Language”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2024:

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