Zur stratigraphischen Gliederung der Saalezeit im Saalegebiet und Harzvorland.

The stratigraphy of the Saalian complex in the dry region of Central Germany. Some Middle and Upper Pleistocene sediment sequences found in the middle Elbe-Saale region indicate a subdivision of the period between the Saale (Drenthe) glaciation and the Eemian. At least one interglacial can be determined especially due to the seqences of Neumark Nord in the valley of the Geisel, of Ehringsdorf and of Bad Kösen-Lengefeld. It was, in the climatic optimum, strongly subcontinentally influenced which could not be found in any other interglacial of the region. A later interglacial phase appears in a second basin of Neumark Nord and in a karstic fissure filling of Ehringsdorf. The horizons can also be characterized biostratigraphically, by associations of fauna and flora and by phylogenetical trends of their vertebrate fauna.Peer Reviewe