Salzburg Slate Alps

Salzburg Slate Alps
Overview map of the Salzburg Slate Alps
Highest peak	Hundstein ( 2117  m above sea level )
location	Salzburg , Styria
part of	Northern Alps or Central Alps
Classification according to	AVE 12
Coordinates	47 ° 23 '  N , 13 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '  N , 13 ° 13'  E
Type	Inner alpine low mountain range
rock	Grauwackenzone / Werfener layers ( Slate Alps )
Age of the rock	Paleozoic - Lower Triassic (approx. 500–250 mill. A)
The slate Alps near Bischofshofen an der Salzach (looking south, the Hohe Tauern in the background on the right )

The Salzburg Slate Alps , also known as the Salzburg Grass Mountains , are a mountain range in the Eastern Alps . You are in Austria in the state of Salzburg , and to a small extent in the state of Styria . As part of the Slate Alps, they are included in the Grauwackenzone , and either in the Northern Alps or in the Central Alps .

The mountain group with the AVE no. 12 comprises the mid-mountain zone of the Pinzgau and Pongau Alps between the Pinzgau basin and the Styrian Ennstal .

Location and landscape

The approximately 10 × 60 km mountainous area lies to the northwest and east of the Salzach Bend , where the Salzach turns from the east to the north, and 50 km south of the city of Salzburg . The Salzach divides them into a western group, the Dientener Berge between Zeller See and Salzach, and the eastern group between Salzach and Enns .

The Salzburg Slate Alps form a long ribbon between the main Alpine ridge in the south and the Berchtesgaden Alps and the Salzburg-Upper Austrian Limestone Alps in the north. To the west, the woody, gently-crested mountain form continues in the Tyrolean Slate Alps ; to the east, in the Ennstal, this type of terrain is no longer found as a closed mountain group. The mountains usually have round and less rocky summit shapes, which are connected by long flat ridges , and are therefore ideal hiking and easy, low-lying ski mountains.

Boundary and adjacent mountain groups

The boundaries of the Salzburg Slate Alps are formed:

• in the north of the Bavarian Alps in the line Saalfelden  - Hinterthal at Maria Alm ( Urslau ) - Filzensattel  - Used Bach  - Dientner saddle  - Trockenbach - Mühlbach  - Salzach at about Bischofshofen  - Salzach downward until confluence Fritzbach
• to the Tennengebirge in the northeast: Fritzbach - Martinsbach to St. Martin  - Karbach to Lungötz
• Dachstein Mountains in the far northeast: Lungötz - Neubach - Linbach - back to Fritzbach - Marcheggsattel  - Warm Mandling  - Cold Mandling  - Schildlehenbach - Ramsaubach  - Weißenbach on the Enns
• to Radstädter Tauern and Schladminger Tauern in the southeast: Enns upwards past Radstadt via Altenmarkt im Pongau to the confluence of Litzlingbach  - Wagrainer Höhe  - Wagrainer Bach on the Salzach near St. Johann im Pongau
• Ankogel Group , Goldberg Group , Glockner Group in the western south: up the Salzachtal , past Schwarzach - St. Veit and Taxenbach to Bruck an der Glocknerstraße
• The Bruck - Zeller See  - Saalach line to Saalfelden separates from the Kitzbühel Alps (Tyrolean grass mountains) in the west .

structure

This group, which is grouped according to the type of rock, according to the Alpine Association of the Eastern Alps, cannot be assigned to either the Northern or Central Alps in a geological sense, so it does not fit into the general tripartite division of the Eastern Alps, and the information in the literature therefore varies. From a topographical point of view, the group includes:

• the Dientener Berge , in the area known as slate mountains in the real sense, west of the Salzach to Zell am See, with the Hundstein massif ( 2117  m above sea level ) and the Schneeberg-Hochglockner group (Schneebergkreuz 1938  m above sea level) . )
• the Fritztaler Mountains , east of the Salzach to the Styrian border and the Dachstein, with
  • Hochgründeck ( 1821  m above sea level ) in the Bischofshofen – St. Johann-Altenmarkt;
  • Rossbrand ( 1770  m above sea level ), which stretches from Altenmarkt to the Mandling Pass near Radstadt;
  • Glutserberg , Halserberg and the Ramsauerleiten , three small areas in continuation of the Rossbrand to Schladming ;
  • Gerzkopf ( 1728  m above sea level ), north of the Fritztal, which geologically already belongs to the limestone area between the Tennengebirge and Dachstein, and also morphologically does not stand out against the Dachsteinstock, but forms its southwestern foothills

North Tyrolean-Salzburg slate Alps

Outside the province of Salzburg, the Tux Alps and the Kitzbühel Alps as well as the eastern Grauwackenzone up to the Dachstein are counted among the slate Alps and are thus referred to as the North Tyrolean-Salzburg Slate Alps or simply called the Slate Alps .

geology

The northern part of the Salzburg Slate Alps is made up of Werfen layers of the Lower Triassic . In addition, the southern foothills of the Tennengebirge (Werfen-St.-Martiner Schuppenzone) are geologically part of the slate Alps, but are left out by the AVE Group. After the older Moriggl division, however, the border ran - geologically correct, but orographically incorrect - at the rock transition directly at the southern edge of the Tennengebirge Lungötz - Werfenweng - Werfen on the Salzach.

The southern part, with Hochgründeck , Rossbrand and Ramsauleiten, belongs to the Grauwackenzone and was formed in the Paleozoic . Copper , magnesium and graphite are found in these layers .

The southern border is formed by the characteristic change to the Hohe and Niederen Tauern in the form of the Salzach-Ennstal-Mariazell-Puchberg-Lineament , which runs from the Salzachtal over the Wagrainer Höhe and through the Flachau and Radstädter basins over the Mandlingpass into the Styrian Ennstal , and part the north alpine long valley furrow . In the west, however , the Tauern window is not bordered by central gneiss , but by the Penninic slate envelope , which, however, differs significantly in geomorphology due to its different nature .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alpine association division of the Eastern Alps