单词 | pfalzian |
释义 | Pfalziann.adj. Geology. A. n. A minor mountain-building episode in Europe which is believed to have occurred towards the end of the Permian period, later than the Saalian. ΚΠ 1931 J. W. Gregory & B. H. Barrett Gen. Stratigr. 19 Pfalzian. Between Trias and Permian. 1942 J. H. F. Umbgrove Pulse of Earth 163/2 The Pfalzian had very little influence on mountain-building and is scarcely noticeable in the belts in which it occurred. B. adj. Designating or relating to this episode. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [adjective] > orogenesis > specific hercynian1895 Laramide1895 Caledonian1903 Armorican1906 Variscan1906 Taconic1908 Saalian1931 Pfalzian1932 Shamvaian1947 pan-African1964 1932 T. W. E. David Explan. Notes New Geol. Map Austral. 73 The epi-Permian movement..in eastern Australia..[continued] for some little time after Pfalzian and Appalachian disturbance had ended. 1937 A. 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. 1999 Geophysical Jrnl. 19 337 The structurally simplest part of the Main anticline of the Donbas folded structure was studied. At least 10 different deformation stages, reflecting the Pfalzian, early-Cimmerian, Laramian and recent activation stages, were established. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1931 |
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