# Mindel glaciation

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Extent of Alpine glaciation (blue: edge of the ice sheet in the Mindel and [Riss glacial](/source/Riss_glacial) periods)

The **Mindel glaciation** ([German](/source/German_language): *Mindel-Kaltzeit*, also *Mindel-Glazial*, *Mindel-Komplex* or, colloquially, *Mindel-Eiszeit*) is the third youngest [glacial stage](/source/Glacial_stage) in the [Alps](/source/Alps). Its name was coined by [Albrecht Penck](/source/Albrecht_Penck) and [Eduard Brückner](/source/Eduard_Br%C3%BCckner), who named it after the Swabian river, the [Mindel](/source/Mindel_(river)). The Mindel glacial occurred in the [Middle Pleistocene](/source/Middle_Pleistocene); it was preceded by the [Haslach-Mindel interglacial](/source/Haslach-Mindel_interglacial) (often regarded as part of [Günz](/source/Gunz_(geology))) and succeeded by the [Mindel-Riss interglacial](/source/Mindel-Riss_interglacial) ([Holstein interglacial](/source/Holstein_interglacial)).

The Mindel glaciation is commonly correlated with the [Elster glaciation](/source/Elster_glaciation) of northern Europe. The more precise timing is controversial since Mindel is commonly correlated to two different [marine isotope stages](/source/Marine_isotope_stage), MIS 12[1] (478–424 thousand years ago[2]) and MIS 10[3] (374–337 thousand years ago[2]). This ambiguity is much related to the correlation problem described in more detail in the article '[Elster glaciation](/source/Elster_glaciation)'.

## See also

- [Timeline of glaciation](/source/Timeline_of_glaciation)

- [Glaciology](/source/Glaciology)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Corr_2011_1-0)** [Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, Global chronostratigraphical correlation table for the last 2.7 million years, v. 2011](http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/POSTERSTRAT_v2011.jpg)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-MIS_ages_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-MIS_ages_2-1) [Lisiecki, Lorraine E.](/source/Lorraine_Lisiecki); [Raymo, Maureen E.](/source/Maureen_Raymo) (2005). ["A Pliocene-Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic δ18O records"](https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00233/34403/32830.pdf) (PDF). *Paleoceanography*. **20** (1): n/a. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2005PalOc..20.1003L](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005PalOc..20.1003L). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1029/2004PA001071](https://doi.org/10.1029%2F2004PA001071). [hdl](/source/Hdl_(identifier)):[2027.42/149224](https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42%2F149224). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [12788441](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:12788441). (Erratum: [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1029/2005PA001164](https://doi.org/10.1029%2F2005PA001164))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-STD_2016_3-0)** [German Stratigraphic Commission: Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2016](http://www.stratigraphie.de/std/Bilder/5_2.pdf)

## Literature

- K.A. Habbe; D. Ellwanger; R. Becker-Haumann (2007), "Stratigraphische Begriffe für das Quartär des süddeutschen Alpenvorlandes", *Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart Quaternary Science Journal* (in German), **56** (1/2): 66–83, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.3285/eg.56.1-2.03](https://doi.org/10.3285%2Feg.56.1-2.03), [hdl](/source/Hdl_(identifier)):[11858/00-1735-0000-0001-B9FE-0](https://hdl.handle.net/11858%2F00-1735-0000-0001-B9FE-0), [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0424-7116](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0424-7116)

- T. Litt; et al., "Das Quartär in der Stratigraphischen Tabelle von Deutschland 2002", *Newsletters in Stratigraphie* (in German), vol. 41, no. 1–3, Berlin, Stuttgart, pp. 385–399 [explanation](http://www.deuqua.de/strat/dokumente/Erlaeuterungen_STD02.pdf), [table](http://www.deuqua.de/strat/dokumente/website_STD2002_Quartaer.pdf)

- Albrecht Penck; Eduard Brückner (1901–1909), *Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter* (in German), Leipzig: C.H. Tauchnitz (3 volumes)

v t e The cold and warm periods of the Quaternary in the Alpine region Biber Danube Gunz Haslach Mindel Riss Würm Biber/Danube Danube/Gunz Gunz/Haslach Haslach/Mindel Mindel/Riss Last Interglacial

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