ELSPEETSE HEIDE

The Elspeetsche heide is part of a large wedge-shaped meltwater terrace on the northern Veluwe. Meltwater terraces were formed at the end of the penultimate ice age (Saalien) when the land ice that lay over the north of the Netherlands began to melt. Meltwater lakes formed between the moraines and the land ice. The meltwater from the glaciers took sand, gravel and loam to the lakes and a lot of sedimentation material also slipped from the moraines to the bottom of the lakes. A kind of beaches arose along the banks. As the lakes slowly emptied gradually, new lower beach or terrace levels were formed. Meltwater terraces often have a pockmarked surface with an alternation of irregularly shaped hills and valleys.
In this region many boulders are found that have been transported from Scandinavia to the Netherlands with the glacier ice.

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