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Glacial and wind-polished rocks at Kleiner Berg

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Glacial and wind-polished rocks at Kleiner Berg

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Location: Lossatal, Landkreis Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

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October 24, 2021

With bench, distant view of Wurzen and geological information.

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October 21, 2020

In the middle of the 19th century, scratches were discovered on the surface of the quartz porphyry on the Kleiner Berg near Hohburg. These scratches were thought to be the result of glacial ice and dust-laden winds. This finding fueled the scientific debate about glaciation of the North German lowlands, long before this theory was generally accepted.

The wind-cuts can be seen on the walls of the free-standing “Naumann-Heim-Felsen” on the Kleiner Berg. During the Weichselian Ice Age between 115,000 and 12,000 years ago, the inland ice glaciers advancing from the north no longer reached the area of the Porphyrland Geopark. Instead, extensive cold steppes expanded. Winds laden with fine sand and dust smoothed stones (wind edges) and rocks. The most famous “worked” by the wind is the Naumann-Heim-Felsen on the southeastern slope of the Kleiner Berg. The winds carved out fine grooves in the direction of the wind and left fine pits in the rock as impact marks.

Due to this special and valuable significance, the ice age traces on the Kleiner Berg have been designated a “National Geotope” and are a natural monument.

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October 21, 2020

The glacier cuts (Morlot cuts) are located about 150 m southeast of the summit of the Kleiner Berg, which consists of Hohburg quartz porphyry. During the ice ages, ice masses several hundred meters thick pushed over the mountain. The pieces of rock frozen in the ice scraped over the volcanic rocks in the subsoil and carved the scratches in the rock that are still visible today. The huge inland glaciers of the ice age had their roots in what is now Scandinavia. These scratches can be used to reconstruct the direction of the glacier's flow.

The glacier and wind cuts are considered an important testimony to the history of the earth and served as proof of the theory of European inland glaciation as early as 1844. Due to this special and valuable significance, the ice age traces on the Kleiner Berg have been designated a "National Geotope" and are a natural monument.

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Glacial and wind-polished rocks at Kleiner Berg

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