Wolstonianadj.
/wʊlˈstəʊnɪən/ Geology.
Epithet of the penultimate Pleistocene glaciation in Britain (identified with the Saale of continental Europe), and of a stratigraphic stage of the Pleistocene lying above the Hoxnian and below the Ipswichian; of or belonging to this stage or glacial. Also absol.
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Kansan1894
Scanian1895
Wisconsin1895
Illinoian1896
sub-Aftonian1896
Riss1908
Würmian1927
Elster1934
Weichsel1934
Saale1937
Menapian1957
Nebraskan1966
Anglian1968
Devensian1968
Weichselian1968
Wisconsinan1968
Elsterian1969
Wolstonian1969
Würm1972
Donau1983
1969 Proc. Geol. Soc. Aug. 152 It is recommended that for the Pleistocene and Holocene of the British Isles the following ages/stages be adopted as a regional scale... Pleistocene: Devensian, Ipswichian, Wolstonian [etc.].
1975 Nature 9 Oct. 478/2 The Sugworth deposit lies topographically well above the Hanborough Terrace which has been ascribed both to the Hoxnian Interglacial and, more recently, to an early part of the Wolstonian.
1981 F. W. Shotton in Neale & Flenley Quaternary in Brit. xiii. 143 This makes the gravels post-Hoxnian or at least late-Hoxnian, and the overlying Wetton Till even later. So if the latter is pre-Devensian, it can only be Wolstonian.
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