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Mindel Geol.|ˈmɪndəl|
The name of a tributary of the Danube in Bavaria, W. Germany, adopted by A. Penck (in Penck & Brückner Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter (1901) I. i. 110) and used attrib. to designate the second (antepenultimate) Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps, and in conjunction with Riss to designate the following interglacial period. Also absol.
1910[see Günz]. 1939[see interglacial a.]. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 6 Relatively early in the Pleistocene, probably at the time of the Mindel glaciation, the Caspian was occupied by a high-level lake. 1972Sci. Amer. Mar. 60/1 Deposits laid down in the subsequent interglacial period, the Mindel-Riss, contain a few fossil remains of a true cave bear. A bear skull preserved in Mindel-Riss sediments at Swanscombe in England shows the domed forehead that is characteristic of the species. |