Waal warm period

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The Waal Warm Period (also Waal Interglacial ) (Zagwijn, 1960) was a warm period in northern Europe that lasted from around 1.45 million years to 1.20 million years. It is therefore completely in the Old Pleistocene and is thus part of the Cenozoic (Earth New Age). The name goes back to a main arm of the Rhine delta, the Waal . The Waal warm period could correspond to the Danube-Günz interglacial of the northern Alpine foothills .

The warm period lies entirely in the Matuyama epoch , in which the geomagnetic field was polarized differently than today with a few exceptions : The magnetic north pole (actually corresponds magnetically to the south) was close to the geographic south pole .

literature

  • Thomas Litt, Karl-Ernst Behre, Klaus-Dieter Meyer , Hans-Jürgen Stephan and Stefan Wansa: Stratigraphic terms for the Quaternary of the northern German glaciation area . In: T. Litt on behalf of the German Stratigraphic Commission (ed.): Stratigraphie von Deutschland - Quaternary. Special issue. Ice Age and Present / Quaternary Science Journal . 56, No. 1/2. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung (Nägele and Obermiller), 2007, ISSN  0424-7116 , p. 7-65 , doi : 10.3285 / eg.56.1-2.02 ( article ).
  • Zagwijn, WH, 1960. Aspects of the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene vegetation in the Netherlands . Mededelingen Geologische Stichting, Series C-III-l, 5: 178 pp.