Younger ballast

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The younger ceiling gravel (after Albrecht Penck ) is a river terrace that was created during the Mindel glacial period .

Penck first recognized the importance of river terraces for the structure of the Pleistocene in 1882 . The younger ceiling gravel today forms, for example, interrupted forest and arable areas on the edge of a river landscape or a gravel border along a mountain slope.

literature

• Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner : The Alps in the Ice Age , 3 volumes, Leipzig 1901–1909