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neoglacial, a.|niːəʊˈgleɪsɪəl, -ˈgleɪʃəl| Also Neo-. [f. neo- + glacial a.] Of or pertaining to a neoglaciation; also absol., a neoglacial period.
1960Amer. Jrnl. Sci. CCLVIII. 325 Some Neoglacial ice bodies are judged to have attained a length of nearly two miles. 1970Sci. Amer. June 103/3 In 1794, George Vancouver observed the position of ice in Glacier Bay. At that time glaciers in southern Alaska had begun to retreat from a maximum neoglacial position attained earlier in the 18th century. 1974Nature 20/27 Dec. 680/1 During the Neoglacial, the three major advance phases of alpine and polar glaciers around 4,590–5,260, 2,100–2,940 and 40–460 yr b.p. were exactly contemporaneous with the three major post-Wisconsin volcanic phases..in New Zealand, Japan and southern South America. |