Untersuchungen zur Reliefentwicklung im nördlichen Rheinhessen

Abstract: During its uplift in the Pleistocene the limestone plateau of northern Rheinhessen underwent fluvial dissection. Taking place from the outer edge of the plateau, the erosion led to the formation of a rim of piedmont surfaces, deposed in sequences, in front of the escarpment. Glacis and pediments were formed. Cryoturbations, ice wedges on the surface sediment of these base levels, as well as morphometric and situmetric measurements of limestone rubble with rounded edges, have shown that the base levels were created by predominantly fluviatile erosion in a humid, periglaeial climatic zone. The older base level remnants, using the main terrace level of the Wiesbach as a main drainage channel, contain the molar remains of the Elephas meridionalis in the gravel of the superficial strata, and are therefore classified as belonging to the middle Pleistocene. The younger glacis terraces, which were aligned with the middle terrace of the Wiesbach or its tributaries, could be dated as belongi.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/1780

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Untersuchungen zur Reliefentwicklung im nördlichen Rheinhessen ; volume:30 ; number:2 ; year:1976 ; Erdkunde ; 30, Heft 2 (1976)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Beck, Nordwin

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1976.02.01
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410291111422.608554733446
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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