The terrestrial margins of the Middle Pleistocene ice sheets in northern central Europe were
characterised by the formation of extensive ice-dammed lakes, which were controlled by the
blockage of spillways by the ice margin. The largest ice-dammed lake had a volume of∼
224 km³ and formed in a late stage of the first Saalian ice advance (MIS 6) in central
Germany. The failure of the ice dam in the bedrock-outlet channel triggered a major glacial
lake-outburst flood. Flood-related erosional and depositional features include large-scale …

The regional meltwater-drainage system and the landscape evolution along the
southwestern margin of the Middle Pleistocene (Saalian) Fennoscandian ice sheet in
northern central Europe were strongly impacted by the formation and drainage of ice-
dammed lakes. Ice–sheet advances repeatedly led to the blockage of the fluvial-and
meltwater-drainage systems and the formation of extensive ice-dammed lakes. Between the
Lower Rhine Embayment in the west and the continental drainage divide between the …