Die Letzte Eiszeit in Nordamerika und Europa

Abstract. As new observations and C14-determinations, especially in the surrounding of the big inlandices, show, the evolution of the Last Glaciation took place in the same manner in Europe as in North America. A first great ice advance (with minor oscillations) which lasted from about 70 000 to about 50 000 Years B. P., was followed first by a great interstadial (Göttweig, Talbot) and then by a middle part with a changing climatic character, viz. with warmer times („interstadials") and colder ones (with formation of loess etc.). This part lasted from the end of the Göttweig-Interstadial (about 43 000) to about 25 000 Y.B.P. In the third part of the Last Glaciation a new great advance of the ice took place, which led to the maximum extension. Then the ice receded with some minor readvances. About 10 000 Y.B.P. the temperature rose strongly and brought the Last Glaciation to an end (though some big ice relicts still existed). The three parts of the Last Glaciation should be named: Old, Middle and Young Würm (Old, Middle, Young or Lower, Middle, Upper Wisconsin).