Gamsgrube special protection area
The Gamsgrube is a special protection area within the Hohe Tauern National Park . It is located below the Fuscherkarkopf in the municipality of Heiligenblut and can be reached via the Gamsgrubenweg from Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe . Entering the chamois pit is prohibited.
description
The chamois pit consists of drifting sand, which is removed from the limestone mica schist of the surrounding slopes and summit ridges in a storm and transported here. The drifting sand is deposited as quicksand pyramids on melting snow surfaces and also as dunes up to three meters high. Similar soil formations are only known from Svalbard , Iceland , Greenland and the Central Asian mountains.
vegetation
Due to the long snow cover, the short vegetation period and the constant shifting of the fine sand dunes by wind and precipitation, a special plant community has formed here. In the chamois pit, the round-leaved gentian , the whorl willow , the alpine soldanelle , the dwarf primrose , the silver arum , the alpine buttercup , the alpine broad-pod , the stemless gluewort , the alpine keel , the blue grass , the common Alpenscharte , the dwarf chickweed , the edelweiss , the evergreen rock flower and the Rudolph saxifrage .
literature
- Information boards at the chamois pit
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 5 ′ 29 ″ N , 12 ° 44 ′ 12.5 ″ E