Field trip 6, Thursday 26^th September 2024 (Half day)

Sediment dynamics of a major glacier lobe: the Salzach Glacier in the North Alpine Foreland

Guides: Bernhard Salcher, Reinhard Starnberger

This field excursion guides to some key landforms and sediments of the Salzach foreland glacier lobe that reflect glacial, glaciofluvial and associated postglacial processes during and after four foreland glaciations. Stops are aligned to cover the temporal succession of processes, from ice built up to the period of maximum ice expansion and to ice wastage at the end of glacial cylces. The excursion, finally, guides to sites of postglacial landscape evolution reflecting the dynamics triggered by warm periods in subsequence to glacial maxima. The excursion guide (containing all Deuqua field trips) is included in the price to this field trip.