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Saale Geol.|ˈzɑːlə|
The name of a river in E. Germany used attrib. with reference to the third (penultimate) glaciation of the Pleistocene epoch in northern Europe, equivalent to the Riss glaciation in the Alps.
1937W. B. Wright Quaternary Ice Age (ed. 2) x. 136 In several places two deposits of loess are separated from one another by glacial formations, indicating that loess formation preceded the advance of the Saale Ice-sheet. 1945F. E. Zeuner Pleistocene Period iii. 76 The most remarkable feature of the Ukrainian succession is the moraine of the Dnjepr lobe of the Saale glaciation. 1959Wells & Kirkaldy Outl. Hist. Geol. (ed. 4) xix. 368 The Gipping and Lowestoft Boulder Clays must be correlated with the Saale and Elster glaciations respectively. 1971R. F. Flint Glacial & Quaternary Geol. xxiv. 628 The distribution of the extensive Saale drift is generally well defined, though in places it is not differentiated clearly from the Elster. 1979Nature 18 Jan. 172/1 It lies between Saale glacial deposits and the sands of the Last (Weichselian) Glaciation (isotope stages 2, 3, 4 and 5a–5d). |