The Urstrom is a geologists' name for a great
glacial age river of the
Polish and north
German plain, which drained the combined melt-waters from the northern headwaters of the
Alps
The Alps () are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
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and the southern part of the
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion#Europe, subregion of northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It can sometimes also ...
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 g ...
.
[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
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Urstromtal
References
Ice ages
Rivers of Poland
Paleogeography
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