Lower terrace

According to Albrecht Penck (around 1900), the lower terrace is a river terrace that was created during the Würm glacial period .

Penck first recognized the importance of river terraces for the structure of the Pleistocene in 1882 . The lower terrace today forms the mostly fertile farmland along the great rivers of southern Germany .

According to research by later geologists (see gravel terrace ), low terraces elsewhere - depending on the geographical location - can also be due to tectonic or thalassostatic causes.

literature

• Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner : The Alps in the Ice Age , 3 volumes, Leipzig 1901–1909
• Hans Murawski : Geological dictionary (keyword high or gravel terrace), Enke-Verlag, Stuttgart 1977