The Erdmannshöhle is located at the NE margin of the Dinkelberg plateau in SW Germany. With a length of 2315 m, it is the longest cave in the deep open karst area near the village of Hasel. Three main cave levels developed in moderately SW-dipping, thinly bedded and fractured limestones of the Upper Muschelkalk (Triassic). The youngest cave level containing the cave stream is still active. Eighteen samples for U/Th dating were taken from the oldest and the intermediate cave levels. At the oldest cave level, the ages range from 162 to 110 ka, indicating speleothem growth starting in the middle Beringen Glaciation and terminating at the end of the Eem Interglacial. At the intermediate cave level, the ages range from 100 to 12 ka, i.e. early Birrfeld Glaciation to Younger Dryas Stadial. The age dating shows that speleothem growth did not cease completely during long periods of harsh climate conditions during the Beringen and Birrfeld glaciations and that permafrost terminating speleogenesis and speleothem growth was thus probably established only temporarily over relatively short periods. A conceptual model for the Middle Pleistocene to Holocene development of the Erdmannshöhle is presented within the framework of modern Quaternary lithostratigraphy. This model facilitates a first correlation of the cave evolution with the Middle to Late Pleistocene depositional record in the Möhlinerfeld, which is a key area for modern Quaternary lithostratigraphy in Switzerland and Southern Germany. Thus, speleological and Quaternary research, both based on a regional scale data compilation, complement one another with respect to the timing of events and the landscape evolution during the Quaternary and Late Neogene.

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德国西南部哈塞尔附近的Erdmannshöhle：岩溶环境和洞穴演化

Erdmannshöhle位于德国西南部丁克尔贝格高原的东北边缘。它是长2315 m的洞穴，是Hasel村附近深空旷的喀斯特地区最长的洞穴。在上Muschelkalk（三叠纪）的中等西南倾角，薄层状和破碎的石灰岩中形成了三个主要的洞穴水平。包含洞穴水流的最年轻的洞穴水位仍处于活动状态。从最老的和中等的洞穴水平中采集了18个U / Th测年样品。在最古老的洞穴水平上，年龄范围从162到110 ka，表明蛇麻草的生长始于白令根冰川中期，终止于Eem间冰期结束。在中等洞穴水平，年龄范围从100到12 ka，即早期的Birrfeld冰川到年轻的Dryas Stadial。年龄测年表明，在白令根和比尔费尔德冰川长期的恶劣气候条件下，针叶藻的生长并没有完全停止，因此终止针叶形成和针叶藻生长的多年冻土可能只是在相对较短的时期内临时建立的。在现代第四纪岩石地层学的框架内，提出了Erdmannshöhle的中更新世至全新世发展的概念模型。该模型促进了洞穴演化与Möhlinerfeld中至晚更新世沉积记录的首次相关性，Möhlinerfeld是瑞士和德国南部现代第四纪岩石地层学研究的重要领域。因此，基于区域规模数据汇编的洞穴学和第四纪研究，