Universität zu Köln

Schellmann, Gerhard, Schielein, Patrick, Raehle, Wolfgang and Burow, Christoph (2019). The formation of Middle and Upper Pleistocene terraces (Ubergangsterrassen and Hochterrassen) in the Bavarian Alpine Foreland - new numeric dating results (ESR, OSL, C-14) and gastropod fauna analysis. E G Quatern. Sci. J., 68 (2). S. 141 - 165. GOTTINGEN: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH. ISSN 2199-9090

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Until now, reliable chronological classifications based on numerical ages for many Pleistocene fluvial deposits in the Alpine Foreland were rare. In this study, new numeric data (ESR, OSL, C-14) from Middle and Upper (Late) Pleistocene Hochterrassen (high terraces) and Ubergangsterrassen (transitional terraces) in the Bavarian Alpine Foreland are presented. The dating results imply that the Hochterrassen gravel sensu stricto were deposited during the penultimate glacial (MIS 6, Rissian), and that underlying older gravel accumulation are predominantly of penultimate interglacial (MIS 7, Riss-Riss interglacial) age. In some areas of the Hochterrassen in the Danube valley south of Regensburg (interglacial Hartinger Schichten, Harting layers), and in some areas of the Rainer Hochterrasse (basal gravel unit I), Hochterrassen gravels are underlain by much older interglacial gravel deposits. These interglacial basal gravel deposits illustrate that the downcutting of these valleys far away from areas of Pleistocene foreland glaciations happened predominantly during warm-temperate interglacial or late-glacial periods. One last interglacial (MIS 5e, Riss-Wurm interglacial) Hochterrasse is morphologically preserved in the Isar valley. This Jungere Moosburger Hochterrasse is composed of the Fagotienschotter (Fagotia gravel, named after the gastropod Fagotia acicularis). The next younger terraces are the Early to Middle Wurmian (MIS 5d to MIS 3?) Ubergangsterrassen (transitional terraces), whereas the younger one of the two Ubergangsterrassen was formed most probably during the Middle Wurmian (MIS 3).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schellmann, Gerhard UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schielein, Patrick UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Raehle, Wolfgang UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Burow, Christoph UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-134673
DOI:	10.5194/egqsj-68-141-2019
Journal or Publication Title:	E G Quatern. Sci. J.
Volume:	68
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 141 - 165
Date:	2019
Publisher:	COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
Place of Publication:	GOTTINGEN
ISSN:	2199-9090
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Geology Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/13467