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post-glacial, a. (n.) Geol.|-ˈgleɪʃ(ɪ)əl|
[f. post- B. 1 b + glacial.]
Existing or occurring subsequent to the glacial period or ice age. Also as n., a post-glacial deposit or period; post-ˈglacially adv.
1855Phillips Man. Geol. 31 Tertiary or Cainozoic Series of Strata... Formations: Postglacial... Glacial... Preglacial. 1863Q. Rev. CXIV. 408 The remarkable conformity of the preglacial and postglacial fauna. 1873J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age Pref. 7 The geological history of glacial and post⁓glacial Scotland. 1877Dawson Orig. World xiv. 295 Man comes in at the close of this cold period, in what is called the Post-glacial age. 1928Funk's Stand. Dict., Post-glacial n., a sedimentary deposit resulting from the retreat of a continental glacier. 1937A. L. Du Toit Our Wandering Continents iv. 77 Over extensive areas the ice-front discharged into the ocean or else the sea lay not far away, as indicated by the marine post-glacials. 1949Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. LX. 1369/2 Some overlapping of ranges has taken place post-glacially, wherever reproductive isolation has gone far enough to permit it. 1957J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. xliv. 1231 The Dogger Bank..was post-glacially dry land or a vast freshwater fen. 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles i. 8 We at present are in a period optimistically termed the Post-glacial, but which may be an interglacial. |