Saale glaciation

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Noun1.Saale glaciation - the next-to-last Pleistocene glaciation in northern Europe and the deposits laid down at that time
glaciation - the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice
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In the Pleistocene, in the age of Elster and Saale glaciations, the continental glacier penetrated the area from the north, followed by depositing of glacial and glaciofluvial poor-graded gravelly and sandy sediments of a brown, grey-brown, yellow, or reddish colour, and glaciolacustrine sediments, represented by grey-reddish, grey-brown, or reddish-brown clays and sandy clays, laminated in grey and with sandy lenticulars in places.
Influence of the soil genesis on physical and mechanical properties
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