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Günz Geol.|gʏnts|
The name of a tributary of the Danube in southern Germany, adopted by A. Penck (in Penck & Brückner Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter (1901) I. i. 110) and used attrib. to designate the first Pleistocene glaciation in the Alps. Also absol.
1910Zeitschr. f. Gletscherkunde IV. 244 The two older, known as Günz and Mindel, are separated from each other by a long interval of deglaciation. Ibid. 251 The Günz drift is almost completely covered by later glacial deposits. 1923A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. ii. 21 The period of the stratum is generally considered early Pleistocene, possibly approximately contemporary with the first or Günz glaciation of Europe—nearly a million years ago. 1970I. Cornwall Ice Ages iii. 62 The North American correlative of European Günz was generally supposed to be the Nebraskan glaciation. |