| 释义 |
Hoxnian, a.|ˈhɒksnɪən|
[f. Hoxne, name of the village in Suffolk where the type site is situated: see -ian.]
Epithet of the second (penultimate) interglacial in Britain (identified with the Mindel-Riss interglacial of continental Europe), and of a stage of the middle Pleistocene; hence, of or contemporaneous with this interglacial or stage. Also absol. as n., the Hoxnian interglacial or the Hoxnian stage.
1956West & Donner in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. (1957) CXII. 86 Hoxnian Interglacial. [Note] A general name suggested for this interglacial period. 1963R. G. West in Proc. Geologists' Assoc. LXXIV. 171 Evidence for sea-levels during the Hoxnian Stage is summarized in Fig. 9. 1964K. P. Oakley Frameworks for dating Fossil Man iii. 29 In Britain the silver fir (Abies) is absent from Cromerian diagrams, abundant in the Late Temperate phase of the Hoxnian. 1968R. G. West Pleistocene Geol. & Biol. xii. 276 Often they are overlain by interglacial or Flandrian beach gravels, and..they are probably mostly Hoxnian or older. 1969Proc. Geol. Soc. Aug. 152 It is recommended that for the Pleistocene and Holocene of the British Isles the following ages/stages be adopted as a regional scale... Pleistocene:..Wolstonian, Hoxnian, Anglian, Cromerian, [etc.]. 1970Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. CCLVII. 414 Buxus pollen has been found in the Hoxnian deposits at Birmingham. 1970Times 10 Mar. 16/6 In the closing stage of the Hoxnian, the pine became the dominant forest tree. |