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Sub-ˈboreal, a.
Also sub-Boreal.
[sub- 18.]
Pertaining to or designating a European climatic period that followed the Atlantic and preceded the Subatlantic. Also absol.
1876[see Arctic a. 3]. 1935Discovery July 198/2 The Atlantic period was followed by another drier, continental phase, the Subboreal, lasting from 2500 till 500 b.c. 1963H. N. Savory in Foster & Alcock Culture & Environment iii. 27 Primitive man, at least under sub-Boreal climatic conditions, had a choice of two main routes which gave him relatively easy access to the Glamorgan uplands from the coastal area of settlement. 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles iv. 84 The sequence is overlain by peat of Atlantic and Sub-boreal age. |