1Relating to or denoting the most recent Pleistocene glaciation in Britain, identified with the Weichselian of northern Europe.
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- What separates that time from today, however, was the most recent glacial phase: the Devensian glaciations.
- These processes can be observed occurring in the near-surface at present and have also affected late Devensian and pre-late Devensian glacial deposits.
- Younger cited evidence for extensive ground freezing in SE England during the Devensian, beyond the limit of the Devensian ice sheet.
- Scoping calculations have shown that these strains would have been of the order of 10-5 at Sellafield for the Devensian ice sheet.
- As Devensian glacial landforms are still fresh, it is assumed for simplicity that a negligible amount of these has been eroded so far.
- 1.1as noun the Devensian The Devensian glaciation or the system of deposits laid down during it.