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Elster, n. Geol.|ˈɛlstə(r)|
[The name of a tributary of the River Elbe in Germany.]
Used attrib. to designate a Pleistocene glaciation in northern Europe preceding the Saale, and the corresponding stratigraphic stage. Also absol.
1934R. A. Daly Changing World of Ice Age i. 29 Recently four Glacial stages have been traced in Germany. Figure 19 shows the nested moraines of three, named in order of decreasing age, Elster, Saale, and Weichsel. 1937W. B. Wright Quaternary Ice Age (ed. 2) x. 134 The Elster Glaciation is recognised to have been the most extensive except around Görlitz in Silesia, where the Saale Glaciation probably overstepped its margin. 1950Nature 24 June 1002/1 Between the Elster and the Saale glaciation there is intercalated the transgression of the so-called ‘Holstein Sea’. 1965A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (ed. 2) xxi. 690 (caption) The Elster front was overrun by the Saale in the Netherlands. 1983T. Nilsson Pleistocene x. 138 A potential ‘Interglacial IV’ has been added to the Dutch system of warm stages predating the classical Elster Glacial Stage.
Hence Elˈsterian a.
1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles xvi. 355 It was not until Elsterian times that ice from centres spread outwards into the lowlands of Scotland, northern England..and East Anglia. 1975Nature 10 Jan. 96/1 The faunas of the Calcareous Group and the Rodent Earth correlate well with the European sites at Mosbach, Mauer, Hundsheim and Tarkö, which are usually considered to be between Cromerian (sensu stricto) and Elsterian in age. |