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    changes in the European environment during the Würm glaciation. During the height of Würm glaciation, c. 24,000 – c. 10,000 BP, most of western and central...
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    Age began 34 million years ago, its latest phase being the Quaternary glaciation, in progress since 2.58 million years ago. Within ice ages, there exist...
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    northern parts of Europe. In the Alpine region it corresponds to the Würm glaciation. It was characterized by a large ice sheet (the Fenno-Scandian ice...
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    start of the Eem interglacial (Riss-Würm interglacial). It is thus roughly contemporaneous with the Saale glaciation of the North German glacial sequence...
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    (including the Sangamonian, Ipswichian, Mikulino, Kaydaky, Valdivia and Riss-Würm) was the interglacial period which began about 130,000 years ago at the end...
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    The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsin glaciation, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking...
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  • and Wurm glacials. These have not been easy to identify in the geological record of the Alps, but MIS 16 has been identified with the Don Glaciation of...
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  • Thumbnail for Late Cenozoic Ice Age
    glaciation of North America during the last glacial period Würm glaciation, the glaciation of the Alps during the last glacial period Younger Dryas, a...
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    11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union...
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    the names Riss (180,000–130,000 years bp) and Würm (70,000–10,000 years bp) refer specifically to glaciation in the Alpine region. The maximum extent of...
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    Simssee (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of Lake Rosenheim, which stretched over the area at the end of the Würm glaciation. The lake is part of the following municipalities: Bad Endorf Stephanskirchen...
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    The lake was formed during the last period of global glaciation in the Alps (Würm glaciation) during the Pleistocene epoch. It has a surface area of...
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    Eibsee (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    was formed when the Isar Loisach glacier withdrew at the end of the Würm glaciation and left a depression that filled with water. Between 1700 BCE and...
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    000: Beginning of Riss glaciation. 130,000: Beginning of Riss-Würm interglacial. 70,000: Beginning of Würm glaciation. 62,000: Würm I/II interglacial. 57...
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    using the scientific name Felis spelaea. It probably dates to the Würm glaciation, and is 191,000 to 57,000 years old. Older lion skull fragments were...
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    (PGP) 126 ka when the Riß glaciation (Alpine) was being succeeded by the Eemian (Riß-Würm) interglacial period. The Riß-Würm ended 115 ka with the onset...
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    Micoquien (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    industry, that is found in the Eemian and in an early episode of the Würm glaciation (about 130,000 to 60,000 BCE). The Micoquien is distinguished technologically...
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    Illmensee (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the Würm glaciation in the Upper Swabian hill country [de]. The municipality's three lakes, the Illmensee itself, Ruschweiler [de], and the Volzer [de] lakes...
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    Swiss Plateau (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    glaciers. During all the known alpine glaciations (Günz glaciation, Mindel glaciation, Riss glaciation and Würm glaciation), huge glaciers penetrated the Swiss...
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    was formed in the Würm glaciation. The small mountain is one of the remains of one of the lateral moraines of the glacier of river Würm. The place is named...
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  • The oldest layers date back to the end of the Riss glaciation and the youngest to the Würm glaciation. The oldest Neanderthal remains were found in layer...
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    chub and northern pike. The lake is located amongst moraines from the Würm glaciation which seal the bottom of the lake and did create the depression for...
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    the two last major glaciations, the Riss glaciation and the Würm glaciation, a glacier was present in the upper part of the Riou de la Montagne Valley...
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    Egelsee (Bubikon) (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Zurich, Switzerland. Its surface area is 4.3 ha (11 acres). During the Würm glaciation around 12,000 years ago, the Rhine/Linth Glacier shaped the landscape...
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  • that the Tüttensee has an undisturbed profile of peat bog since the Würm glaciation and over more than 12.500 years since. The recent dating of the undisturbed...
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    outer morainic circles are attributed to the Riss glaciation and the inner ones to the Würm glaciation. The morphology of the hills is gentle and with delicate...
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    thousand years ago, at the end of the Last Glacial Period (known as the Würm for its Alpine component). In the mountains of Europe, small glaciers also...
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    The earliest M. vetus fossils were found in deposits dated to the Würm glaciation in Lebanon and Israel. The beech marten likely originated in the Near...
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    Rhine Falls (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Part of the Rhine today includes this ancient riverbed. During the Würm glaciation, the Rhine was pushed far to the south to its present course, over...
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    Weßlinger See (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Weßling. Lake Weßling is a remnant of a kettle hole created during the Würm glaciation. It has no natural tributary, and due to the use of fertilizers in...
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