第四纪年代学的研究,可以说是从研究第四纪冰川沉积和建立冰期开始的。早在本世纪初,彭克等(A.Penk and E.Bruckner,1909)根据阿尔卑斯山北坡冰碛地层和相应的阶地的地貌分析,用多瑙河支流名称建立了四个经典冰期和三个间冰期,并从冰川和冰水堆积物的数量,风化程度及切蚀深度等估算了年代的长短。其中以民德-里斯间冰期最长,切蚀的深度到处都很大,估计有24万年。我国也曾以此与之比较过,称为大间冰期。后 Quaternary chronological studies, we can say from the study of Quaternary glacial deposits and the establishment of ice age began. As early as the beginning of this century, according to A. Penk and E. Bruckner (1909), based on the landscape analysis of the moraine strata and the corresponding terraces on the northern slope of the Alps, four classic ice ages and three inter- Ice age, and from the glaciers and ice water deposits, the degree of weathering and depth of cut etc estimated the length of the era. Among them, the deepest interglacial period of Mintel-Rees, the depth of cut-and-etch is very large everywhere, an estimated 240,000 years. Our country has also been compared with this, known as the Great Ice Age. Rear