Brilon saddle

The Briloner Sattel is a geological saddle (anticline) as part of a saddle structure in the Hochsauerlandkreis in the Rhenish Slate Mountains . In it occurs Massenkalk from the upper Givetian (highest average Devon) with a thickness of 1250 m to light. It comes from a tropical reef system.

Other structures include the Warsteiner Sattel in the north with the Scharfenberger Sattel in between , and the Messinghäuser Sattel in the south, as well as the Remscheid-Altenaer Sattel , the Ebbe-Sattel , Belecker Sattel , Siegener Sattel , Ostsauerlandische Sattel , Attendorn -Esper Doppelmulde and, for example, the Velberter Sattel further west in the Bergisches Land .

literature

• R. Stein: Geognostic description of the area around Brilon. In: Journal of the German Geological Society , 12 (1860): Pages 208-272
• PP Kronenberg: The Brilon mass limestone saddle. In: Journal of the German Geological Society , Volume 110 (1958), p. 592-636
• Thomas Städter, Roman Koch: Microfaxial and diagenetic development of a Devonian carbonate sequence (givet) on the SW edge of the Brilon saddle. In: Facies , Volume 17 (1987), pages 215-229
• Yousry Wahba: The geology of the Brilon mass limestone saddle in the eastern Sauerland. 1978
• Andreas May: The mass limestone (Devon) north of Brilon (Sauerland). In: Geology and Palaeontology in Westphalia , Issue 10, 1987
• Klaus W. Malmsheimer, Hans Mensink, Rüdiger Stritzke: Rock diversity in the reef area around Brilon. In: Geology and Paleontology in Westphalia , year 18, April 1991