[[File:Map of Alpine Glaciations.png|thumb|Extent of Alpine glaciation (blue: edge of the ice sheet in the Mindel and [[Riss glacial]] periods)]]
The '''Mindel glaciation''' ({{langx|de|Mindel-Kaltzeit}}, also ''Mindel-Glazial'', ''Mindel-Komplex'' or, colloquially, ''Mindel-Eiszeit'') is the third youngest [[glacial stage]] in the [[Alps]]. Its name was coined by [[Albrecht Penck]] and [[Eduard Brückner]], who named it after the Swabian river, the [[Mindel (river)|Mindel]]. The Mindel glacial occurred in the [[Middle Pleistocene]]; it was preceded by the [[Haslach-Mindel interglacial]] (often regarded as part of [[Gunz (geology)|Günz]]) and succeeded by the [[Mindel-Riss interglacial]] ([[Holstein interglacial]]).
The Mindel glaciation is commonly correlated with the [[Elster glaciation]] of northern Europe. The more precise timing is controversial since Mindel is commonly correlated to two different [[marine isotope stage]]s, MIS 12<ref name="Corr 2011">[http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/POSTERSTRAT_v2011.jpg Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, Global chronostratigraphical correlation table for the last 2.7 million years, v. 2011]</ref> (478–424 thousand years ago<ref name="MIS ages">{{cite journal|doi=10.1029/2004PA001071|url=https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00233/34403/32830.pdf|title=A Pliocene-Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic δ18O records|journal=Paleoceanography|volume=20|author1= Lisiecki, Lorraine E.| author2= Raymo, Maureen E.|author-link = Lorraine Lisiecki|author-link2 = Maureen Raymo|year=2005|issue=1|pages=n/a|bibcode=2005PalOc..20.1003L|hdl=2027.42/149224|s2cid=12788441 |hdl-access=free}} {{erratum|doi=10.1029/2005PA001164|checked=yes}}</ref>) and MIS 10<ref name="STD 2016">[http://www.stratigraphie.de/std/Bilder/5_2.pdf German Stratigraphic Commission: Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2016]</ref> (374–337 thousand years ago<ref name="MIS ages"/>). This ambiguity is much related to the correlation problem described in more detail in the article '[[Elster glaciation]]'.
== See also == *[[Timeline of glaciation]] *[[Glaciology]]
== References == <references />
== Literature == * {{citation|author=K.A. Habbe|author2=D. Ellwanger|author3=R. Becker-Haumann |journal=Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart Quaternary Science Journal|title=Stratigraphische Begriffe für das Quartär des süddeutschen Alpenvorlandes|year=2007|volume=56 |issue=1/2 |pages=66–83|issn=0424-7116|language=de |doi=10.3285/eg.56.1-2.03|doi-access=free|hdl=11858/00-1735-0000-0001-B9FE-0|hdl-access=free}} * {{citation|author=T. Litt |display-authors=et al|periodical=Newsletters in Stratigraphie|title=Das Quartär in der Stratigraphischen Tabelle von Deutschland 2002 |volume=41 |issue=1–3 |location=Berlin, Stuttgart |pages=385–399 |language=de}} [http://www.deuqua.de/strat/dokumente/Erlaeuterungen_STD02.pdf explanation], [http://www.deuqua.de/strat/dokumente/website_STD2002_Quartaer.pdf table] * {{citation|author=Albrecht Penck|author2=Eduard Brückner|title=Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter |publisher=C.H. Tauchnitz|location=Leipzig |date=1901–1909 |language=de}} (3 volumes)
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