The Biber-Danube interglacial (german: Biber-Donau-Interglazial) or Biber-Danube warm period (''Biber-Donau-Warmzeit'') is a historical term for a hypothetical

warm period Warm, WARM, or Warmth may refer to: * A somewhat high temperature * Kindness Music * ''Warm'' (The Lettermen album), 1967, and the title song * ''Warm'' (Johnny Mathis album), 1958, and the title song * ''Warm'' (Herb Alpert album), 1969 * ' ...

of the

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in ...

epoch in the

Alps The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Swi ...

, between the Biber and Danube glaciations. It was defined as an erosion phase, that followed the Biber and preceded the Danube glacial. Thus, it represented the gap between the depositions that are ascribed to the two cold periods. Modern research has found that both Biber and Danube correspond to many glacial cycles, as identified by approximately 80

marine isotope stage Marine isotope stages (MIS), marine oxygen-isotope stages, or oxygen isotope stages (OIS), are alternating warm and cool periods in the Earth's paleoclimate, deduced from oxygen isotope data reflecting changes in temperature derived from data f ...

s (MIS), making the term Biber-Danube superfluous. The term is not used in the 2016 version of the detailed stratigraphic table by the German Stratigraphic Commission.German Stratigraphic Commission: Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2016
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