isochrone


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isochrone

(ˈaɪsəʊˌkrəʊn)
n
(Physical Geography) a line on a map or diagram connecting places from which it takes the same time to travel to a certain point
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Noun1.isochrone - an isogram connecting points at which something occurs or arrives at the same time
isarithm, isogram, isopleth - a line drawn on a map connecting points having the same numerical value of some variable
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To summarise, the settlement dynamics of the Lands of Antequera in the late 4th and throughout the 3rd millennia BCE seem to have included a number of sizeable settlements, such as Arroyo Saladillo, Huerta del Cipres, Marimacho and La Pena de los Enamorados within a 90-minute isochrone, whilst slightly further north there would have been sites such as El Silillo and possibly El Perezon (Figs.
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Tebbens & Cande, 1997) generated during the isochrone 6C (~24 Myr; Handschumacher, 1976; Hey, 1977) when a plate reorganization occurred as inferred from the analysis of magnetic anomalies (Mammerickx & Klitgord, 1982).
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