英和和英

語源

post- +‎ volcanic

形容詞

postvolcanic (not comparable)

1. Following the eruption of a volcano, or after a period of volcanism.
   • 1880, Josiah Dwight Whitney, The Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California‎^[1], page 243:

     In view of the above considerations, it seems reasonable, in endeavoring to find a line of demarcation, as indicated by fossil remains, somewhere in the gravel and volcanic series, to inquire what is positively known to have been found in strata lying undisturbed under the basalt; or, at least, so far down in the volcanic formations as to preclude any possibility that the object in question could have found its way down from a superficial deposit of postvolcanic age.

   • 1892, Waldemar Lindgren, “Two Neocone rivers of California”, in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America‎^[2], volume 4, page 268:

     The Tertiary deposits would greatly facilitate the recognition of any such faults of considerable throw, and I think the probability very slight that the slopes shown in the sections are to any noticeable degree influenced by such postvolcanic disturbances.

   • 2015, Dénes Loczy, Landscapes and Landforms of Hungary‎^[3], page 228:

     Postvolcanic activity reached its peak in the Sarmatian-Pannonian and ended in the Pleistocene.