单词 | finiglacial |
释义 | Finiglacialadj. Geology. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > quaternary > late or post-glacial postglacial1851 late glacial1873 Finiglacial1910 Laufen1927 Flandrian1934 1910 G. 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. 1946 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery 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. 1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. xlii. 1158 The Daniglacial may have equalled the Gotiglacial and Finiglacial in length. 1965 F. J. Monkhouse Dict. Geogr. 122/2 Finiglacial stage, the third stage in the retreat of the continental ice-sheet from Scandinavia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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