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Finiglacial, a. Geol.|fɪnɪˈgleɪʃ(ɪ)əl|
Also Fini-glacial, finiglacial.
[f. L. fīni-s end + glacial a.]
Epithet of the last of the three divisions or ‘sub-epochs’ of the Late Glacial epoch in north-western Europe, when the ice-sheet left Finland and retreated across the Gulf of Bothnia to central Sweden.
1910G. De Geer in Geol. Förening. Stockholm Förhandl. XXXII. 1146 The last part of the late glacial epoch, when the ice receded from the great moraines to eastern Jämtland at the point of the first bipartition of the vanishing ice-remnant, may be called the finiglacial age. 1946L. D. Stamp Brit. Struct. xiv. 170 The Fini-Glacial lasted from about 8500 b.c. to 6500 b.c. and was the period of the retreat of the ice from Finland. 1957J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. xlii. 1158 The Daniglacial may have equalled the Gotiglacial and Finiglacial in length. 1965F. J. Monkhouse Dict. Geogr. 122/2 Finiglacial stage, the third stage in the retreat of the continental ice-sheet from Scandinavia. |