428 



OSBORN AND REEDS PREHISTORY OP MAN IN EUROPE 



- 3500 

 -3000 



TAUFKAR K0GL 



-3500 

 -3000 



S. Polished T Trough ^Present rock TO 7 Overdeepened <]Jp Later 



surfacB edge surface valley deposits 



Trough valley and glacial overdeepeing with preglacial valley bottom. [After Penck and 

 Bruckner, 1909] 



.GAMSWANNELS 



ACHER KOGL.^ 3000m - 



PLEISTOCENE 



GLACIAL 



0VERDEEPENIN6 



AND EROSION 



IN THE ALPINE 



VALLEYS 



OBERSTRASS INN VALLEY NEDER VALLEY 



Cross Section of the Inn Valley with early interracial valley bottoms. [After Hess, 1903] 



ROTTUM 



ROTH WEIHUNG, 



» 



[depe'ret] 



600-_ioo-ll0m. 

 55 -BO 



2J0J) -"-18.-20 



30 Km. 



Cross Section of ihe glacio-fiuvial +errcces on the Riss- 1 Her valleys north foreland 

 of the Alps, folder, m, younger Deckenschotter; r, higher, w, lower terrace schotter. 

 [After [A.E.Foster] Penck and Bruckner, 1309]. gI,Gunz;mH,Mindel;rIII,Riss;wDr, 

 Wurm glacial stages 



5M-B0NNEVAUXp,c. EU 

 ^400 ^ 



3300 



-500 , 



S[DEPERET] 

 ,n 100-IIOm. 



300|-22-3Z 

 18-20 



Cross Section of the Suzon valley from Bievre-Valloire byfJeaurepaire near Lyons 

 France, m, younger Deckenschotter; r, high; w, low terrace schotter. [After Penck 

 and Bruckner, 1909] mH.Mindel; rBT,Riss; wITWurm glacial stages. 



FARRA m[DEPERET] 

 — r iiom 

 100 



PLEISTOCENE 



6LACI0-FLUVIAL 



RIVER TERRACES 



ON THE ALPINE 



FORELAND 



Cross Section through the valley of the Soligo by Farra, Italy. £, older Deckenschotter, 

 m, younger Deckenschotter; r, higher, w, lower terrace schotter. t.bed rock [After Penck 

 and Bruckner, 1909]. gl.Gunz; mH,Mindel;rl,Riss; w IT, Wurm. 



.PLIOCE NE 148 m 



PLEISTOCENE OF MEDITERRANEAN COASTS 



TYRRHENIAN 28 -30m. 



"^^sMONASTIRIAN 18-20 m. 

 7jim, sea level 



PLEISTOCENE 



MARINE 



TERRACES 



OF THE 



MEDITERRANEAN 



Diagrammatic representation of the Pleistocene marine terraces of ttie western 

 Mediterranean. [In part after Gignoux,l9l3, Deperet,l9l8-I92l] By Chester A. Reeds,l92l. 



YKB.dil. 



Figure 2. — Graphic Presentation of the Relation of the Pleistocene glacial Phenomena 

 of the Alps to the Hirer and Marine Terraces of Europe 



