From the foreland to the Central Alps

The Tyrolean and Bavarian Alps offer a fascinating plethora of Quaternary issues ranging from outcrops of Pleistocene sediment successions to modern glacial and periglacial environments. Twelve such areas were selected and are part of this field guidebook, the first of its kind for the Quaternary in this part of the Alps. Produced for the 2014 convention of the German Quaternary Association (DEUQUA) this book was published in English to allow also the non-German speaking colleagues, students and interested lay people to visit these field areas and to access this information. Many sites including the Hötting Breccia and its well-known flora, the banded clays of Baumkirchen and the Gschnitz and Egesen glacier advances, to name just a few, are key to the understanding of the Quaternary history and dynamics of the entire Alps including their foreland. We express our hopes that this guidebook will foster further international collaboration in and across this fascinating mountain range, its multifaceted Quaternary evolution and landscape evolution.