Eichsfeld-Altmark threshold
The Eichsfeld-Altmark-Schwelle is a NNE-SSW striking paleogeographical uplift structure in the western section of the Thuringian-Saxon large block .
The threshold was created over 250 million years ago and was between 10 and 20 kilometers wide and towered over the surrounding terrain by several hundred meters. It runs from the Altmark over the Harz , the Eichsfeld into western Thuringia and separates the Central European Basin into an eastern (Thuringian-West Brandenburg basin) and a western part (Lower Saxony-Hessian basin). It is divided into several parts by cross-elements that cross from NW-SE. The region south of the Harz between Bad Lauterberg and Bad Sachsa in the area of the Eichsfeld threshold , where remnants of these geological structures (reef formations) can still be seen today as rock formations , occupies a special section .
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietrich Franke: Regional Geologie in Ostdeutschland-A dictionary 2011 Regionalgeologie Ost