Glacial vs Stadial - What's the difference?
glacial | stadial |
of, or relating to glaciers
* We examined the glacial deposits
(figuratively) very slow
* 2010 , "Under the volcano", The Economist , 16 Oct 2010:
cold and icy
* After the rain and frost, the pavements were glacial
having the appearance of ice
* On cold days, glacial acetic acid will freeze in the bottle
cool and unfriendly
* He gave me a glacial stare
(geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.
(archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 188:
*:He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.
(geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.
In geology terms the difference between glacial and stadial
is that glacial is of the Pleistocene period dominated by the presence of glaciers while stadial is a short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.As a proper noun Glacial
is of the Pleistocene period dominated by the presence of glaciers.As a noun stadial is
a short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.glacial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Progress on judicial reform has been glacial , meeting enormous resistance.