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Urstrom

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The Urstrom is a geologists' name for a great glacial age river of the Polish and north German plain, which drained the combined melt-waters from the northern headwaters of the Alps and the southern part of the Scandinavian ice during the Devensian ice age.[1]

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  1. ^ K Reicherter, N Froitzheim, M Jarosiński, J Badura, H-J Franzke, M Hansen, C Hübscher, R Müller, P Poprawa, J Reinecker, W Stackebrandt, T Boigt, H von Eynatten & W Zuchiewicz, "Alpine tectonics north of the Alps" in Tom McCann (ed), The Geology of Central Europe: Mesozoic and Cenozoic, vol 2, Geological Society of London, 2008, Chap 19, pp 1233–1234