Sky (mountain)
| sky | ||
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| height | 1145 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Styria , Austria | |
| Mountains | Mürz Valley Alps | |
| Dominance | 1.44 km → Kulmspitz | |
| Notch height | 120 m ↓ east of Federleben | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 30 '36 " N , 15 ° 12' 13" E | |
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| rock | Paragneiss , Plagioclase gneiss | |
| Age of the rock | Paleozoic | |
The sky is 1145 m above sea level. A. high, rounded mountain (probably a sky- hall name 'arched corridor, hilltop') near Thörl ( health resort Aflenz ) in Styria . It is a double peak and heavily forested, which rarely occurs in mountains in the Grauwackenzone .
geology
Geologically, the mountain is a remnant of old, metamorphic rocks from the Paleozoic Era , which, as dark slate (" greywack slate "), form a transition area only about 2 km wide between the limestone massif of the Hochschwab and the actual core of the Central Alps . The latter were referred to by crystalline geologists as " Middle Eastern Alps " because of a special way of their formation in the system of the Eastern Alps .
To the east, the summit heights of the Middle Eastern Alps decrease continuously until they descend under the young sediment of the Vienna Basin beyond the Semmering Pass ( 985 m ), 50 km away . One such central alpine peak is the Floning ( 1584 m ) located 2.3 km south of the sky , which is made up of Young Palaeocian paragneiss and has much more pronounced shapes.
The Strohsitzbach rushes to the east through the rather steep valley between the two peaks until it flows into the Thörlbach at a height of 600 m , which in turn reaches the Mur after 20 km . The narrow valley of the straw seat Bach's Finstertal . Both this headwaters and the southern slope of the sky are called Strohsitz .
On its eastern flank there is an alpine meadow that is crossed by some hiking trails, and a spur protrudes in the northeast, which the locals christened Himmelspitz . Some springs serve the local water supply.
In the standard work on the geology of the Alps (see literature ) the region described is assigned to the approximately 20 km long “ Thörler Zug ”, which is mixed with local scales . The mountain range integrated into it is known as the "Troiseck-Floning Train".
In the Aflenz- Thörl area , the Grauwackenzone is also mixed with Mesozoic flysch and Jura limestone .
See also
literature
- R. Oberhauser (Ed.): The geological structure of Austria , pp. 316–407. Geological Federal Institute Vienna / Springer-Verlag Vienna-New York 1980.