NEEDIAN INTERGLACIAL STAGE

major division of Pleistocene time and deposits in The Netherlands (the Pleistocene Epoch began about 1,600,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Needian Interglacial followed the Waal and preceded the Drenthian Glacial Stage. The Needian has been correlated with the Hoxne Interglacial Stage of Great Britain and the Holstein Interglacial Stage of northern Europe. The tendency is to apply the term Holstein rather than Needian to the Dutch deposits; the term Needian is gradually losing favour in The Netherlands.