Abstract
Problems of terrace formation
Highlights
Siegert and Weissermel (1911) found a terrace in the Saale area which appears to be younger than the Elster glaciation but older than the socalled Main Terrace of that region
Barner (1941) found the latter mammals in the corresponding Leine Terrace near Gronau, where they were recovered together with a hand-axe of the Middle Acheul. These bone remains could have been redeposited – the animals lived in the interglacial period itself, while their bones were later washed into the lower part of the terrace during the glacial period deposition
Here the building up of gravel began under cold conditions and ends under warm ones – just the opposite of the Main Terrace of the Saale area
Summary
Most larger rivers in Central Europe are accompanied by a whole system of higher terraces. It is not possible that glacial-climatic gravel formations accumulated in the low mountain ranges, while only a few hundred metres lower, a proper interglacial fauna was still present. We must accept that there exists a Main Terrace, the lower part of which contains a fully interglacial fauna, whereas the upper part was deposited under glacial conditions.
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