Weichsel
/ˈvʌɪks(ə)l
/noun [usually as modifier] Geology
1The final Pleistocene glaciation in northern Europe, corresponding to the Devensian of Britain (and possibly the Würm of the Alps).Skjaldbreithur and the vast lava field which surrounds it were formed some nine to ten thousand years ago, after the retreat of the last great ice-age glacier (Weichsel).
1.1The system of deposits laid down at the time of the Weichsel glaciation.
Derivatives
Weichselian
- The succession is finally discordantly overlain by tills and melt water deposits of Late Weichselian age.
- Maximum extent of the Eurasian ice sheets in the Barents and Kara Sea region during the Weichselian.
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Weichselian deposits in the southern part of the Lower Vistula region, northern Poland - new data and interpretations
Origin
1930s: from the German name of the River Vistula in Poland.