| 单词 | late-glacial |
| 释义 | late-glacial, a. Geol.|leɪt ˈgleɪʃɪəl, leɪt ˈgleɪʃəl|
Also late glacial, lateglacial, and with capital initial(s).
[f. late a.1 + glacial a.]
Designating or pertaining to the latter part of a Quaternary ice age, spec. the time at the end of the Devensian immediately preceding the current post-glacial (Flandrian) period. Also absol. Cf. *late a.1 4 b.
1880J. Geikie Prehistoric Europe xvi. 390 The red and parti-coloured brick-clays of the late glacial series. 1890― in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1889 560 The löss..is not of postglacial age—even much of what one may call the ‘remodified löss’ being of Late Glacial or Pleistocene age. 1927Peake & Fleure Hunters & Artists i. 11 (caption) Chart showing the correlation of the late glacial stages. 1957Encycl. Brit. V. 826/2 Much information as to late-glacial and post-glacial climates is provided by the vegetation, especially of peat-bogs. 1968R. G. West Pleistocene Geol. & Biol. xiii. 305 Compared with the succeeding interglacials the Cromerian vegetational history is distinct in the absence or scarcity of Hippophaë in the late-glacial zone. 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles ii. 46 A characteristic plant of the Late-glacial. Ibid. 48 The Late-glacial sequence on the Chalk can be tied in to the record of vegetational and other environmental changes. 1984Lowe & Walker Reconstructing Quaternary Environments i. 9 Opinions differ over the extent to which the ‘Lateglacial’ period can be subdivided. |
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