Articles | Volume 68, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-68-141-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-68-141-2019
Research article
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25 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 25 Jul 2019

The formation of Middle and Upper Pleistocene terraces (Übergangsterrassen and Hochterrassen) in the Bavarian Alpine Foreland – new numeric dating results (ESR, OSL, 14C) and gastropod fauna analysis

Gerhard Schellmann, Patrick Schielein, Wolfgang Rähle, and Christoph Burow

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This study presents ESR, OSL and C-14 data from Upper and Middle Pleistocene fluvial terraces (Übergangsterrassen, Hochterrassen) and its loess cover in the Bavarian Alpine Foreland. It will be illustrated that the ESR dating of embedded land-snail shells offers a new dating approach with an upper dating limit most probably much older than the penultimate interglacial (MIS 7). Furthermore, it shows that in some areas Hochterrassen gravels are underlain by older interglacial gravel deposits.