| 单词 |
Palæic |
| 释义 |
Palæic, a. Geol.|pəˈliːɪk| [mod. f. Gr. πάλαι-ος ancient + -ic; after Norw. palæisk (Reusch 1900).] Applied to the old land surface as it existed at the close of the Tertiary Period, before the formation of valleys of erosion and other recent surface changes.
1902H. W. Monckton in Geol. Mag. Dec. iv. IX. 410 Dr. Reusch..classes this moorland as belonging to what he names the Palæic surface of Norway. Ibid., In Norway, where the rocks are hard, we have the Palæic hills and valley, with its river still flowing through it, the whole, no doubt, much modified by ice-action. |

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