Proterozoic

What do we mean by proterozoic?

Of or relating to the geologic eon from 2,500 Ma to 541.0±1.0 Ma.

Words that are spelled similarly to proterozoic:
proterozoic, protozoic.

Adjectives that are often used to describe proterozoic:
late, early, middle, mid, latest, upper, lower, terminal, archean, later, archaean, uppermost, earliest, younger, neo, older, thick, folded, grade, probable.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective proterozoic:
rocks, boundary, time, age, era, transition, evolution, basement, crust, supercontinent, deposits, margin, belts, sediments, cambrian, tectonics, palaeozoic, climates, basins, chemistry, period, strata, stromatolites, change, times, lower, zonation, basin, microfossils, stratigraphy, accretion, granites, oceans, zone, formations, terranes, history, events, phanerozoic, magmatism, suture, source, assembly, sequences, fossils, deformation, magnetostratigraphy, tillites, plutonism, complex, deposition, antecedents, distribution, metamorphism, ophiolite, paleozoic, rock, interval, event, volcanism, sequence, growth, sedimentation, unconformity, shield, belt, granite, foredeeps, eukaryotes, record, rifting.

Words that sound like proterozoic:
proterozoic, protozoic, protozoa, patristic, patrizia, parazoa, pederastic, petrosa, patronymic, pantropic.