Late Ice Age Lake and Drainage Network Evolution in Land Salzburg

Five distinct time periods from 19,000 to 10,000 years before present illustrate the evolution of the water network in the Land Salzburg region. The dataset, published under CC-BY-3.0, is a product of cooperation between OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich. It presents changes in lakes and drainage patterns during the Late Ice Age.

Use Cases

• Modeling post-glacial landscape evolution based on the described changes in water networks.
• Analyzing paleo-hydrological patterns from the five specified Late Ice Age time periods.
• Visualizing the historical extent of glacial lakes in the Land Salzburg region.
• Correlating drainage network changes with archaeological evidence of early human habitation.

Strengths

• Covers five specific Late Ice Age time periods (19,000, 17,000, 14,500, 12,500, and 10,000 years before present).
• Published under the permissive CC-BY-3.0 license for broad reuse.
• Represents a cooperative effort between OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total data size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Time Range

Late Ice Age, specifically 19,000 to 10,000 years before present.

Geography

Land Salzburg, Austria