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单词 postglacial
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Definition of postglacial in English:

postglacial

adjective pəʊs(t)ˈɡleɪsɪəlpəʊs(t)ˈɡleɪʃ(ə)lˌpōs(t)ˈɡlāSH(ə)l
Geology
  • Relating to the period since the last (Weichsel or Devensian) glaciation, from the sudden rise in temperature that marks the beginning of the Flandrian about 10,000 years ago.

    〔地质〕冰期后的。比较LATE-GLACIAL

    Compare with late-glacial
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For most Pacific islands, postglacial isostatic effects led to a relative highstand of five to eight feet in regional sea level during mid-Holocene time, peaking perhaps 4,000 years ago.
    • The widespread abundance of peatlands makes them valuable archives of past events for many periods in pre- and postglacial time and at differential spatial scales for most of Canada.
    • The earliest postglacial period in Japan, characterized by hunter-gatherer communities, conventionally divided into six main periods between 10000 and 300 BC.
    • He recognized that all of the beaches had been tilted by postglacial uplift (now attributed to isostatic rebound).
    • Overburden soils include glacial and postglacial deposits and recent fill.

Definition of postglacial in US English:

postglacial

adjectiveˌpōs(t)ˈɡlāSH(ə)l
Geology
  • 1Relating to the period since the last continental glaciation (the Wisconsin in North America), beginning with the sudden rise in temperature about 10,000 years ago.

    Compare with late-glacial
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For most Pacific islands, postglacial isostatic effects led to a relative highstand of five to eight feet in regional sea level during mid-Holocene time, peaking perhaps 4,000 years ago.
    • The earliest postglacial period in Japan, characterized by hunter-gatherer communities, conventionally divided into six main periods between 10000 and 300 BC.
    • He recognized that all of the beaches had been tilted by postglacial uplift (now attributed to isostatic rebound).
    • The widespread abundance of peatlands makes them valuable archives of past events for many periods in pre- and postglacial time and at differential spatial scales for most of Canada.
    • Overburden soils include glacial and postglacial deposits and recent fill.
    1. 1.1as noun the postglacial The postglacial period.
      冰后期
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At a very generalized level, paleoenvironmental records for the Prairies concur in showing a broad three-part division of the postglacial.
      • Each of these trends has also been present for most if not all of the current postglacial.
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