| As times passed, times changed and, though many relicts of the ancients disappeared, this memorial became prized for its beauty and antiquity. |
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| Another possibility is that the present disjunct distributions are merely relicts of a former contiguous or near-contiguous distribution. |
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| The Recent occurrences in the Indo-Pacific and eastern Atlantic may be relicts of the Tethyan distribution. |
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| The 13 living genera are relicts of this earlier diversification and represent one of the four major clades of placental mammals. |
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| The caves are relicts from the last series of ice ages when sea level was 125 meters below its current level because so much water was locked up in polar ice sheets. |
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| She suggested that many springflowering annuals in the Sonoran Desert, especially those with affinities to the California flora, are relicts of the Wisconsin. |
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| After this point, the Forth and Bargy dialect and Fingallian were the only attested relicts of this original form of English. |
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| As such, the Yola and Fingal dialects would have been the only attested relicts of this original English variety in Ireland. |
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| Such situations can serve as refuges for certain Pleistocene relicts, such as Townsend's pocket gopher, while at the same time creating barriers for biological dispersal. |
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| These lunettes are relicts of a Late Pleistocene deflationary period, when the lacustrine hydrology changed from perennial water-filled lakes to dessicated mudflats. |
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