Gänserndorf terrace

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The Gänserndorfer terrace , also known as the city or high terrace in Vienna , is a gravel surface in the Austrian Weinviertel on the Danube that was created during the Ice Age and can be assigned to the Riss Cold Age (Old Ice Age, Middle Pleistocene).

The Gänserndorf terrace, which is geomorphologically assigned to the high terrace (in the sense of Plenck), extends along the Danube from Bisamberg to March and reaches its greatest extent between Deutsch-Wagram and Gänserndorf . It is 155 to 174 meters above sea level, about 10 to 15 meters above the mean water of the Danube. In terms of landscape, it corresponds to the northern sandy soil zone of the Marchfeld in the northern Vienna Basin . The young Praterterrasse ( Würm , last ice age) adjoins the Danube with a small step , which forms the flood plain of the unregulated Danube . This border is the Kleine Wagram Stammersdorf - Deutsch-Wagram - Markgrafneusiedl - Untersiebenbrunn - Schloßhof .

Although it is most widespread north of the (present-day) Danube, there are also parts to the south of the Danube, such as the first and ninth districts of Vienna (actual city terrace). To the outside it is bounded by the Simmeringer Terrace , which is also Middle Pleistocene .

It is likely to be continued south of Vienna in the Leopoldsdorfer Platte .

literature

  • J. Fink, H. Majdan: To the structure of the pleistoränen terraces of the Vienna area. In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute , Vienna 1997, pp. 211–249, PDF on ZOBODAT

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Gänserndorfer Terrasse in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  2. ↑ Lit. Fink, Majdan, 1997, chapter The room east of the Bisamberg , p. 227 (ff; pdf p. 17).
  3. ^ H. Küpper: Pleistocene in the southern Vienna basin. In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute , 1962 (1-3), p. 12 and map p. 13, full article p. 8–20, PDF on ZOBODAT
    Rudolf Grill: Report on inspections on the leaves of Vienna and Pressburg of the Austrian Map 1: 200,000. In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute 1971 ( annual and recording reports , 14th), p. A40 (whole article A38-A40, whole booklet pdf , geologie.ac.at, there p. 41).

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '  N , 16 ° 40'  E