Lech glacier
The Lech glacier , also called Iller-Lech glacier , was the ice age glacier of the Lech river . It originated in the Würm Ice Age and had its catchment area mainly in the northern Limestone Alps . He was in contact with other glaciers, which brought him ice with crystalline debris. Between the Alps and Reutte , the glacier was a few kilometers wide and up to 600 meters thick. Further north the width increased and the thickness decreased.
In the foothills of the Alps , it covered the area between Lech and Iller with a maximum extent around 20,000 years ago to the north of today's Kaufbeuren . By guiding the Lech Valley north-east, the emerging from the Alps got glacier a corresponding extension so that the Lech Glacier in space Schongau to the much larger Isar-Loisach Glacier met and both the intervening located small bunting -Gletscher at a prevented further expansion.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Arno Semmel: Geomorphology of the Federal Republic of Germany , Steiner Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-515-06-897-X . Pages 155-161
- ↑ Ludger Feldmann: The geological development of the landscape around Eberfing . In: Luise Hohenleitner: Eberfinger Heimatbuch . Published by the municipality of Eberfing, 1998. Pages 255–263