Die Bedeutung des Göttweiger Interstadials im Ablauf der Würm-Eiszeit

Abstract. The drumlin section recently discovered near Hörmating in the Upper Bavarian area of the Würm Glaciation and evaluated with regard to stratigraphy, paleoclimatology, and chronology by E. Ebers (in this annual) can closely be correlated with the typical loess section of eastern Lower Austria, particularly with its Fellabrunn (Göttweig) fossil soil complex as described and interpreted by F. Brandtner. The Göttweig loamificaton developed during the Hörmating Interstadial from c. 47000 (or 48000) until the close marked by a thin peat layer 45300±1000 C-14 years old. As some findings are suggestive of at least one cold oscillation, the term „Göttweig Interstadial Complex" appears to be correcter. This period interrupted the glacial climate of the Würm Glaciation from c. 47000 (or 48000) until c. 30000 B. P. The northern alpine Piedmont Glaciation was initiated by an advance-gravel later on weathered on the surface probably during the Paudorf Interstadial and advanced entirely (or almost entirely) during the Main Würm Stage from the (Swiss) Aare to the Salzach rivers, after several Lower Würm gravel masses had poured out of the Alps valleys during the Early Würm Stage. This Lower Würm gravel was capped by a weathered (decalcified) stratum 2-3 metres in thickness and can contain up to three interstadial Schieferkohle (Pleistocene lignite) beds intercalated, the lowermost overlying a Schieferkohle stratum deposited during the Riss-Würm Interglacial at some sites.