Mindel glaciation

Extent of Alpine glaciation. Blue: Edge of the ice sheet in the Mindel and Riss glacial periods

The Mindel glaciation (German: Mindel-Kaltzeit, also Mindel-Glazial, Mindel-Komplex or, colloquially, Mindel-Eiszeit) is the third oldest glacial stage in the Alps. Its name was coined by Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner, who named it after the Swabian river, the Mindel. The Mindel glacial occurred in the Middle Pleistocene; it was preceded by the Haslach-Mindel interglacial and succeeded by the Mindel-Riss interglacial (Holstein interglacial).

See also

• Glaciology

References

Literature

• K.A. Habbe, in cooperation with D. Ellwanger and R. Becker-Haumann, T. Litt im Auftrag der Deutschen Stratigraphischen Kommission 2007, ed., "Stratigraphische Begriffe für das Süddeutsche Alpenvorland" (in German), Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart/Quaternary Science Journal (Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nägele und Obermiller)) 56, No. 1/2: pp. 66–83, ISSN 0424-7116 
• T. Litt et al., [explanation; pdf file, 124 kB and table; pdf file, 182 kB "Das Quartär in der Stratigraphischen Tabelle von Deutschland 2002"] (in German), Newsletters in Stratigraphie (Berlin, Stuttgart) 41 (1-3): pp. 385-399, explanation; pdf file, 124 kB and table; pdf file, 182 kB 
• Albrecht Penck, Eduard Brückner (1901-1909) (in German), Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter, Leipzig: C.H. Tauchnitz 

The cold and warm periods of the Quaternary in the Alpine region Biber Danube Günz Haslach Mindel Riss Würm Biber/Danube Danube/Günz Günz/Haslach Haslach/Mindel Mindel/Riss Riss/Würm