Subboreal

A climactic period that is a subdivision of the Holocene epoch running from approximately 3710 to 450 BCE.

Proper noun

  1. A climactic period that is a subdivision of the Holocene epoch running from approximately 3710 to 450 BCE.
    • According to Iversen the steep decline of Hedera must be effected by a change of climate, viz. a fall in winter temperatures which would be characteristic of the Subboreal time. - 1955, Willem van Zeist, Pollen...
    • The people had a significant effect on the vegetation in the Subboreal (accelerated replacement of deciduous trees by Picea). - 2006, E. M. Scott, Andrey Yu. Alekseev, Ganna Zaitseva, Impact of the Environment on Human...
    • Results obtained from disciplines as varied as pollen analysis, geomorphology and archeology point at more humid and cool climate for the beginning of the Subboreal (5.500 – +/- 4.000 BP) (28) (32) (18) in the Levant. -...

Origin

From sub- + Boreal.

Forms

Sub-Boreal subboreal