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Scanian, a. (n.)|ˈskeɪnɪən|
[f. med.L. Scania, ad. ON. Skáni or Skáney, the province of Skane in south Sweden + -an.]
1. Of or pertaining to the province of Skåne.
1895, etc. [see below]. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Apr. 306/3 The unrounded o, which sometimes becomes the ‘sorry caterwaul’ of Scanian Swedish. 1963J. Sahlgren in Brown & Foote Early Eng. & Norse Studies 176 The formation of Scanian place-names.
2. a. Designating the first glaciation of the Pleistocene in northern Europe, roughly corresponding to the Günz glacial in the Alps. Also as n. Now rare.
1895J. Geikie in Jrnl. Geol. III. 246 Scanian. The earliest glacial deposits of northern Europe occur in Skåne—the old division of southern Sweden—hence the provisional name I suggest. Ibid. 263 Not a trace of the Scanian bowlder-clay has been recognized in Britain. 1903A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4) II. 1313 Scanian or 1st Glacial Epoch, represented only in the south of Sweden (Scania), which was overridden by a large Baltic glacier. To this period may belong..the oldest terminal moraines and fluvio-glacial gravels of the Arctic lands. 1910Encycl. Brit. XII. 59/1 Although it is admitted that no strict correlation of the European and North American stages is possible, it has been suggested that..the Kansan may represent the Saxonian;..the Jerseyan, the Scanian; [etc.]. 1957J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. xxxvi. 921 J. Geikie, a constant advocate of multiplicity, postulated six glaciations, named Scanian, Saxonian, Polandian, [etc.]. 1972R. G. West Pleistocene Geol. & Biol. (ed. 2) xi. 219 (table) Scanian.
b. Designating a stade in the retreat of the ice-sheet at the end of the last Pleistocene glaciation in northern Europe (corresponding to the end of the Würm glacial in the Alps), and the resulting stadial moraines. Also as n.
1937Wooldridge & Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xxiii. 413 The retreat [of the Scandinavian ice-sheet] was punctuated by pauses, marked by well-developed stadial moraines. We have thus the Pomeranian Moraine, the Scanian Moraine (13,700 b.c.) and the Salpausselka of Finland. 1963R. A. Daly Changing World of Ice Age ii. 54 During the third substage, which will be referred to as the Scanian, the front retreated to the position of one of the strong moraines in central Finland, where it bears the name ‘First Salpausselkä Moraine’. |