In September 1950 the Deutsche Quartärvereinigung of Hanover met at Munich. Three days were spent in the “classic region of Alpine Pleistocene stratigraphy, the ‘Iller-Lech’ area of Penck.” Papers were read and discussed for three days on the return to Munich. After the sessions further tours were carried out.
During the sessions twenty-six papers were read. Of these many were of pure geological interest and should be recorded elsewhere. The following papers however have closer bearing on the subjects of special interest to this Society:
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R. Finsterwalder: Die bayerischen Gletscher.
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H. Louis: Zur Theorie der Gletschererosion in Tälern.
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H. Lembke: Über periglaziale Erscheinungen im Jungdiluvium Norddeutschlands.
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K. Richter: Die klimatische Auswertung der glazialen Stillstandslagen in Norddeutschland.
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D. Wirtz: Das Pleistozän vom westlichen England und Irland.
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A. Dücker: Ein Untersuchungsverfahren zur Bestimmung der Eismächtigkeit.
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J. Büdel: Die Klimaphasen der Würmeiszeit in Deutschland.
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F. Klute: Niederschlag und Temperatur zur Eiszeit.
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E. Ostendorff: Zur Dynamik des Inlandeises.
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A. Mirtsching: Über die absolute Dauer des Eiszeitalters.
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A. Cailleux and F. Tricart: Moderne granulometrische Methoden in der Quartärforschung.
It is the hope of the organisers to publish all the papers in the Year Book of the Quartärvereinigung. So far the investigation of living glaciers and the study of glacier physics in particular, do not seem to have revived to any marked extent in Germany, nor for that matter in Austria—the two countries which have contributed so much in the past.
