Frank Ahnert (Editor) LANDFORMSANDLANDFORM EVOLUTION IN WEST GERMANY Published in Connection with the Second International Conference on Geomorphology, Frankfurt a.M., September 3-9, 1989 CATENA SUPPLEMENT 15 ~-~ CATENA- A <oop<n<ing )oom•l of ilio ln<om•<ion•l Soc;«y of So;t &;onu ISSS-A ISS-IBG ~TUDt () B18l! CONTENTS Preface l. Frank Ahnen The major landform rc~ i o ns 2. Herbert Licdtke Tbe landforms in tbe nortb of tbc Federai Republic of Germany and their developmcnt 11 3. Wolfgang Andrcs The Centrai German Uplands 25 4. Hanna Bremer On the geomorphology of the south German scarplands 45 5. K laus Fiscber T be Jandforms of the German Alps and the Alpine Foreland 69 6. Jiirgen Hagedom G lacial and p e ri ~Jacia l morpbology of the Liineburg H eath 85 7. Otto Franzlc Landform developmeni and soil structure of tbe northern Federai Rcpublic of Germany Their role in groundwater resources management 95 8. Haos-Joachim Pachur Geoecological aspccts of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Evolution of tbe Berlin Lakes 107 9. Hans-Rudolf Bork Soil erosion d uri n ~ tbc past millenium in centrai Europe and itS signifìcance witbin the geomorpbodynamics of the Holocene 121 IO. Jiirgen Sponemann Homoclinal ridges in Lower Saxony 133 Il. Ernst Brunotte and Karsten Garleff Structural landforms and planation surfaces in soutbern Lower Saxony 151 12. Kari-Heinz Schmidt Geomorphology of limestone areas in the northeastern Rhenish Siate Mountains 165 13. Arno Semmel The importance of loess in the interprctation of geomorphological processes and for dating in the Federai Republic of Germany 179 14. Nordwin Beck Periglacial glacis (pedimeot) generations at the western margin of the Rbine H essiao Plateau 189 15. Adolf Zicnert Geomorphological aspects of the Odenwald 199 16. Dictrich Barsch and Wolfgang-Aib<:rt Flligcl Hillslopc hydrolog~· - dnw from the Hollmuth test ficld near l leidelberg 2 11 17. Hclmut Blume and Gerhard Rcmmele A compadson of Bunrer Sandstone scarps in the Black Forcst und thc Vosgcs 229 18. Riidiger Mackel and Gaby Zollinger Fluvial action and \'allcy dc,·clopment in the centrai and soulhcrn Black Forest during the late Quaternary 243 19. Kari-Heinz Pfcffcr Tbc karst laodforms of the nortbero Franconian Jura bctwcen rhe rivers Pegnitz and Vils 253 20. Dicter Burger Dolomite weathering and micromorphology of the Palcosoils in tbc Franconian Jura 26 1 21. Michael Schieber Soil (ormation in displaccd Pleistocene aeolian sands in the Niirdlinger Ries 269 22. Manfred W. Buch Late Pleistocene and Holocene de\·elopment of the Danube Valley east or Regensburg 279 23. Horst Strunk Aspects of the Quatemary in the Tertiary Hills of Bavaria 289 24. Robert Lang Spatial differences of solute load output in "Middle Bavaria" 297 25. Karl Albert Habbe and Konrad Rogner Tbc Pleistocene Jller glaciers and their outwash fìelds 31 l 26. Michae.l Becht Suspended load yield of a small Alpine drainage basin in uppcr Bavaria 329 27. Dietrich Barsch and Gerhard Stablein Geomorphological mapping in tbc Federai Republic of Germany The GMK 25 and the GMK 100 343 .