The Schorfheide-Chorin area NE of Berlin is among the areas showing the clearest and most prominent glacially shaped landscapes associated with the last glacial cycle in northern Germany. It is an area with a long-lasting research history starting in the late nineteenth century. Even more so, it is still relevant in science in general, and specifically paleo-glacial and paleo-environmental research continues today. This chapter provides a summary of the geomorphological record of landforms and processes, which formed it and may serve as an entry-point for more detailed investigations of the key topics still under investigation today. In addition, it provides coordinates and descriptions of selected key sites for becoming acquainted with the landscape record of the area, ranging from subglacially formed till plains and drumlinoid elevations to prominent terminal moraines and a complex system of outwash plains intersected with different discharge levels in the adjacent ice-marginal valley, numerous glacially shaped lakes and finally, landforms associated with the melting of dead ice and transformation of the landscape under periglacial climate conditions, including intense aeolian processes.

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The Schorfheide-Chorin Area—A Textbook Example of a Glacially Shaped Landscape in NE Germany

  • Christopher Lüthgens

摘要

The Schorfheide-Chorin area NE of Berlin is among the areas showing the clearest and most prominent glacially shaped landscapes associated with the last glacial cycle in northern Germany. It is an area with a long-lasting research history starting in the late nineteenth century. Even more so, it is still relevant in science in general, and specifically paleo-glacial and paleo-environmental research continues today. This chapter provides a summary of the geomorphological record of landforms and processes, which formed it and may serve as an entry-point for more detailed investigations of the key topics still under investigation today. In addition, it provides coordinates and descriptions of selected key sites for becoming acquainted with the landscape record of the area, ranging from subglacially formed till plains and drumlinoid elevations to prominent terminal moraines and a complex system of outwash plains intersected with different discharge levels in the adjacent ice-marginal valley, numerous glacially shaped lakes and finally, landforms associated with the melting of dead ice and transformation of the landscape under periglacial climate conditions, including intense aeolian processes.