Kuiperberg landscape with tourism Informationboard, ANWB orientation table and monument Willem Wilmink
The Kuiperberg is a 71 meters high hill in the Dutch province Overijssel, Twente, Dinkelland. It is part of a moraine, formed during the Saale Glaciation, a geologic time period that Lasted from 238 tot 126 thousand years ago. The moraine stretched from Ootmarsum till Uelsen in Germany. It's of big geologic and geomorphologic importance. (Source: heemkunde-ootmarsum.nl and Wikipedia) Photo's made during a paleo-ecologic excursion 'Reading the Landscape' in Twente, the Netherlands - guided by Henry Hooghiemstra, paleo-ecologist on the UVA (University of Amsterdam)