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Würm Geol.|vʊəm|
The former name of a lake (the Starnberger See) in Bavaria, adopted by A. Penck (in Penck & Brückner Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter (1909) I. i. 110) and used attrib. to designate the fourth and final Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps; also absol. Cf. Riss.
1910, etc. [see Riss]. 1968[see Weichsel]. 1972Sci. Amer. Mar. 60/2 The very numerous remains found in the Dragon's Lair were evidently deposited there during the final Pleistocene ice advance, the 60,000-year Würm glaciation that ended some 12,000 years ago. 1977G. Clark World Prehistory (ed. 3) xi. 455 Access was easier during the last glaciation, but only noticably so during its colder phases, that is during the Early and Main Würm, to use designations taken from the Swiss Alpine sequence.
Hence ˈWürmian a. (also absol.).
1927Peake & Fleure Hunters & Artists iv. 40 It is..possible that the Capsian industry had passed from Tunis through Sicily to Italy during, or even before, the Würmian glaciation. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 453 One may conclude that the cooling of the water during the Würmian was very slight in the Eastern Basin [of the Mediterranean]. Ibid., The shallow-water Würmian beds. |