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Pfalzian, a. (n.) Geol.|ˈpfæltsɪən|
Also Pfälzian.
[ad. G. Pfälzische (F. Kühne 1922, in Jahrb. Preuss. Geol. Landesanst. XLIII. 433), f. Pfalz, the (Rhineland) Palatinate (ult. f. L. palatium imperial residence: see palace n.1): see -ian.]
Pertaining to or designating a minor orogenic episode in Europe which is believed to have occurred in the Permian period, later than the Saalian. Also ellipt. as n.
1931Gregory & Barrett Gen. Stratigr. 19 Pfalzian. Between Trias and Permian. 1932T. W. E. David Explan. Notes to accompany New Geol. Map Austral. 73 While the epi-Permian movement as a whole seems nearly to correspond with the Pfalzian of Europe and the Appalachian of U.S.A., it would seem that in eastern Australia it continued, in places, for some little time after Pfalzian and Appalachian disturbance had ended. 1937A. L. Du Toit Our Wandering Continents viii. 164 At the close of the Permian, during the Pfalzian Phase, the central plateau of France and the Saar region were upheaved along an E.–W. axis. 1974[see Saalian a.]. |