Quaternary and the Czech landscape

In the Pleistocene, the character of geological, especially exogenous processes was affected by the existence of vast ice sheets that covered considerable part of northern Europe.

Read the Chapter 3.3 from Hradecký, J., Brázdil, R. Climate in the Past and Present in the Czech Lands in the Central European Context In Pánek, T. , Hradecký, J. (Eds.) 2016. Landscapes and Landforms of the Czech Republic. Cham: Springer. P. 19-28.

Task:

1. What is the Quaternary climate and sediment model?

2. How can be the phases of the climate cycle described?

3. During which phase the pedogenesis occurrs and when the sedimentation of the loess?

4. What is "loess"?