The Haslach-Mindel interglacial (german: Haslach-Mindel-Interglazial) and the Haslach-Mindel warm period (''Haslach-Mindel-Warmzeit'') are historical terms 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 ...
in the
Alpine region, between the
Haslach and
Mindel glacial stage
The Mindel glaciation (german: Mindel-Kaltzeit, also ''Mindel-Glazial'', ''Mindel-Komplex'' or, colloquially, ''Mindel-Eiszeit'') is the third youngest glacial stage in the Alps. Its name was coined by Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner, who nam ...
s. The interglacial was defined as the
erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location where it is deposited. Erosion is dis ...
phase which follows the Haslach and precedes the Mindel glacial stage. It thus corresponds to the stratigraphic gap between the Haslach beds (''Haslacher Schotter'') and the Tannheim-Laupheim gravels (''Tannheim-Laupheimer Schotter'') northeast of the
Rhine Glacier.
Modern research has found that the old glacial terms correspond to many glacial cycles, as identified by
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 Haslach-Mindel 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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See also
* Timeline of glaciation
There have been five or six major ice ages in the history of Earth over the past 3 billion years.
The Late Cenozoic Ice Age began 34 million years ago, its latest phase being the Quaternary glaciation, in progress since 2.58 million years ago ...
References
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