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Wolstonian, a. Geol.|wʊlˈstəʊnɪən|
[f. Wolston, name of the village in Warwickshire where the type site is situated: see -ian.]
Epithet of the penultimate Pleistocene glaciation in Britain (identified with the Saale of continental Europe), and of a stratigraphic stage of the Pleistocene lying above the Hoxnian and below the Ipswichian; of or belonging to this stage or glacial. Also absol.
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: Devensian, Ipswichian, Wolstonian [etc.]. 1975Nature 9 Oct. 478/2 The Sugworth deposit lies topographically well above the Hanborough Terrace which has been ascribed both to the Hoxnian Interglacial and, more recently, to an early part of the Wolstonian. 1981F. W. Shotton in Neale & Flenley Quaternary in Brit. xiii. 143 This makes the gravels post-Hoxnian or at least late-Hoxnian, and the overlying Wetton Till even later. So if the latter is pre-Devensian, it can only be Wolstonian. |