Scanianadj.n.
/ˈskeɪnɪən/ 1. Of or pertaining to the province of Skåne.
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Scanian1895
1895 , etc. [see below].
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Apr. 306/3 The unrounded o, which sometimes becomes the ‘sorry caterwaul’ of Scanian Swedish.
1963 J. 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.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > ice-age or glaciation > specific glaciation
Iowan1894
Scanian1895
Illinoian1896
sub-Aftonian1896
Mindel1909
Günz1910
Würm1910
Polonian1914
Nebraskan1930
Elster1934
little ice age1939
Donau1957
Wisconsin1967
Devensian1968
Wisconsinan1968
Anglian1976
Menapian1983
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > quaternary > specific glaciation periods
Kansan1894
Scanian1895
Wisconsin1895
Illinoian1896
sub-Aftonian1896
Riss1908
Würmian1927
Elster1934
Weichsel1934
Saale1937
Menapian1957
Nebraskan1966
Anglian1968
Devensian1968
Weichselian1968
Wisconsinan1968
Elsterian1969
Wolstonian1969
Würm1972
Donau1983
1895 J. Geikie in Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 3 246 Scanian. The earliest glacial deposits of northern Europe occur in Skåne—the old division of southern Sweden—hence the provisional name I suggest.
1895 J. Geikie in Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 3 263 Not a trace of the Scanian bowlder-clay has been recognized in Britain.
1903 A. 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.
1910 Encycl. 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.].
1913 J. Geikie Antiq. Man in Eur. (1914) 248 The Scanian or First Glacial Epoch.
1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. xxxvi. 921 J. Geikie, a constant advocate of multiplicity, postulated six glaciations, named Scanian, Saxonian, Polandian, [etc.].
1972 R. 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.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > ice-age or glaciation > stade > specific stade
Scanian1937
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Scanian1937
1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. 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.
1963 R. 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’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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