riss glaciation

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   the next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps and the deposits laid down at that time

   Broaderglaciation

Questions about riss glaciation

What does riss glaciation mean?

riss glaciation means "the next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps and the deposits laid down at that time".

Is riss glaciation a common word?

riss glaciation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.