interstadial
Speech parts
1. interstadial - Noun
2. interstadial - Adjective
Meaning
Between developmental stages.
the interstadial transmission of disease
(geology) Of or pertaining to a temporary period of thaw in the middle of an ice age.
interstadial (plural interstadials)
Such a period.
Examples
The field studies the last ice age and the recent interstadial the Holocene and uses proxy evidence to reconstruct the past environments during this period to infer the climatic and environmental changes that have occurred.
The preceding Allerød warm period (interstadial) is subdivided into three events: Greenland Interstadial-1c to 1a (GI-1c to GI-1a).