Menap Ice Age
The Menapian glaciation (also called Menapium) was a cold period in northern Europe, which lasted about 1 million years to 800,000 years. It is therefore completely in the Old Pleistocene and is thus part of the Cenozoic .
The name goes back to Waldo H. Zagwijn (from 1957) who named the Cold Age after the Menapier people in the Netherlands. The Menap glacial period could correspond to the Danube glacial period in the northern Alpine foothills.
The Hattem layer of the Menap in the Netherlands has Scandinavian pebbles, which are interpreted as evidence of the oldest glaciation in northern Germany.
Temperatures did not fall as extreme as in the later ice ages. The last representatives of the thermally oriented tertiary flora gradually disappeared north of the Alps.
Sources and individual references
- ^ Zagwijn, WH (1957): Vegetation, climate and time-correlations in the Early Pleistocene of Europe. Geologie en Mijnbouw 19: 233–244.
literature
- Ernst Probst (2014): Germany in the Ice Age: Climate, Landscape, Plants and Animals 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, 96 pages, ISBN 9783842873056