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Interglacial vs Stadial - What's the difference?

interglacial | stadial |

As adjectives the difference between interglacial and stadial

is that interglacial is occurring between ice ages while stadial is (geology) pertaining to a glacial stade.

As nouns the difference between interglacial and stadial

is that interglacial is the relatively warm period between ice ages while stadial is (geology) a short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.

interglacial

English

Adjective

(wikipedia interglacial) (-)
  • Occurring between ice ages.

    • Derived terms

    * interglacial optimum

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The relatively warm period between ice ages.

    • See also

    * interstadial

    Anagrams

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    stadial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia stadial) (en noun)
  • (geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.