The Urstrom is a geologists' name for a great
glacial age river of the
Polish
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and north
German
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plain, which drained the combined melt-waters from the northern headwaters of 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, ...
and the southern part of the
Scandinavia
Scandinavia; Sámi languages: /. ( ) is a subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. In English usage, ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Swe ...
n ice during the
Devensian ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and gre ...
.
[K Reicherter, N Froitzheim, M Jarosiński, J Badura, H-J Franzke, M Hansen, C Hübscher, R Müller, P Poprawa, J Reinecker, W Stackebrandt, T Boigt, H von Eynatten & W Zuchiewicz, "Alpine tectonics north of the Alps" in Tom McCann (ed), ]
The Geology of Central Europe: Mesozoic and Cenozoic
', vol 2, Geological Society of London, 2008, Chap 19, pp 1233–1234
See also
*
Urstromtal
An ''urstromtal'' (plural: ''Urstromtäler'') is a type of broad glacial valley, for example, in northern Central Europe, that appeared during the ice ages, or individual glacial periods of an ice age, at the edge of the Scandinavian ice sheet and ...
References
Ice ages
Rivers of Poland
Paleogeography
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