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intrapluvial, a. and n.|ɪntrəˈpluːvɪəl|
[f. intra- 1 + pluvial a.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating relatively short, drier periods (less marked than interpluvials) that may have occurred during pluvials.
B. n. An intrapluvial period.
1934E. J. Wayland in Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. LXIV. 344 In each of them [sc. pluvials] there is a break, or intrapluvial period. 1939T. P. O'Brien Prehist. Uganda i. 9 The evidence in support of the intrapluvial in Pluvial I was provided by local, though not intense, soil reddening, selenite beds within Pluvial I deposits and by talus accumulations. 1940Geogr. Jrnl. XCVI. 333 There have been very long wet and dry phases, the so-called pluvials and interpluvials; there have been shorter intrapluvials and epipluvials; and there have been short-period oscillations... The intrapluvial oscillations are measured in terms of one hundred years. 1946F. E. Zeuner Dating Past viii. 247 The succession of pluvials with intrapluvials and separated by interpluvials, however, appears at present to be somewhat uncertain. |