monoglacialistn.adj.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˈɡleɪʃəlɪst/, /ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˈɡleɪʃl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˈɡleɪʃələst/ Geology. Now historical.
A. n.
A supporter of the monoglacial theory.
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monoglacialist1914
1914 W. B. Wright Quaternary Ice Age vi. 125 The Cyprina Clays of Denmark..were referred by Geikie..to one of the interglacial periods, but..it was very justly held by the monoglacialists that they might easily be of preglacial age.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 458/2 For a long time, a considerable controversy persisted between monoglacialists and polyglacialists, eventually to be conclusively won by the latter.
1972 B. W. Sparks & R. G. West Ice Age in Brit. i. 4 Monoglacialists..held..that all cold faunas were of one date and, hence, there had been only one cold period.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the monoglacial theory or monoglacialists.
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monoglacialist1946
1946 Antiquity 20 10 Controversy raged with considerable acrimony between the monoglacialist and polyglacialist exponents of Pleistocene geology.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 913/1 For a long time, there was a minority belief in only one glacial epoch, the so-called monoglacialist school, and a few representatives still survive.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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