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Definition of Riss glaciation
1. Noun. The next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps and the deposits laid down at that time.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riss Glaciation
Literary usage of Riss glaciation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prehistoric Man by Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth (1912)
"... 1908), are accompanied by strati- graphical evidence whereby they are referred
to an inter-glacial period later than the riss glaciation ..."
2. The Passing of the Great Race; Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921)
"It is not until after the third severe period of great cold, known as the Riss
glaciation, nor until we enter, some 150000 years ago, the third and last ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1915)
"... or riss glaciation in the Swiss and French Jura extend farther out on the
foreland than the deposits of the other glacial advances. ..."
4. The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant (1916)
"It is not until after the third severe period of great cold, known as the Riss
glaciation, and until we enter, some 150000 years ago, the third and last ..."
5. The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant (1916)
"It is not until after the third severe period of great cold, known as the Riss
glaciation, and until we enter, some 150000 years ago, the third and last ..."
6. The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921)
"It is not until after the third severe period of great cold, known as the Riss
glaciation, nor until we enter, some 150000 years ago, the third and last ..."
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