Mittelpleistozäne Reorganisation
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- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 241 G: 239 B: 237
- Rank
- paleogeography
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Mittelpleistozäne Reorganisation
- Français
- Réorganisation du Pléistocène moyen
- English
- Middle Pleistocene Reorganisation
- Historical Variants
- Morphogenetisches-morphotektonisches Ereignis im nördlichen Alpenvorland (Müller & Schlüchter 1997, Schlüchter & Kelly 2000), Grosse Ausräumungsphase (Keller & Krayss 1999, Keller & Krayss 2010), Mittelpleistozäne Wende (Hantke & Wagner 2004), --- (Head & Gibbard 2005), Mittelpleistozäne Reorganisation = Middle Pleistocene Reorganisation = MPR (Preusser et al. 2011), most pronounced incision, mehrphasige mittelpleistozäne morphologische Wende = Mittelpleistozäne Wende = Mittelpleistozäne Revolutionen
Age
- Age at top
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- Middle Pleistocene
- Note about top
- 780 ka BP (Keller & Krayss 2010)
- Age at base
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- Middle Pleistocene
- Dating Method
- Cromer-Komplex
References
- Definition
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(2011) :
Quaternary glaciation history of northern Switzerland. E&G Quaternary Science Journal 60/2-3, 282-305
p.300: Most pronounced is the incision after deposition of ‘Tiefere Deckenschotter’ (Fig. 18). Besides tectonic processes, this may have been caused by the redirection of the Alpine Rhine that was tributary to the River Danube during most of the Early Pleistocene (cf. Preusser 2008; Keller 2009). The connection of the Alpine Rhine, flowing at a level of about 700 m a.s.l., to the base level in the southern part of the Upper Rhine Graben, being at ca. 250 m a.s.l., must have caused substantial fluvial incision along the Hochrhein and its tributaries (systems of the Rivers Aare, Reuss, and Limmat). This complex change of drainage and relief is currently not directly dated, but we refer to it as Middle Pleistocene Reorganisation (MPR).