List of geotopes in the Traunstein district

This list contains the geotopes of the Upper Bavarian district of Traunstein in Bavaria . The list contains the official names and numbers of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) as well as their geographical location. This list may not be complete. Around 3,400 geotopes (as of March 2020) are recorded in the Bavarian geotope register. The LfU does not consider some geotopes suitable for publication on the Internet. For example, some objects are not safely accessible or may only be entered to a limited extent for other reasons.

Surname	image	Geotope ID	Municipality / location	Geological unit of space	description	Area m² / extension m	geology	Digestion type	value	Protection status	comment
Mindelzeitliche gravel S from Heiligkreuz	more pictures	189A001	Trostberg position	Inn region	Mindel advance gravel and younger gravel are exposed in the firmly conglomerated, high steep slopes of the Alztal.	10800 180 × 60	Type: Type of rock, type of layer sequence : Conglomerate	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	no protected area
Gravel moraine 700 m NW of Oberbrunn	more pictures	189A003	Pittenhart position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The moraine material is solidified. There is a second outcrop nearby (geotope no. 189A005).	3000 100 × 30	Type: Rock Type: Conglomerate	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	no protected area
Gravel moraine 400 m NW of Oberbrunn		189A005	Pittenhart position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The moraine material is solidified. A second outcrop is adjacent (geotope no. 189A003).	2800 80 × 35	Type: Rock Type: Conglomerate	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	no protected area
Gravel outcrop in Stein ad Traun	more pictures	189A008	Traunreut position	Inn region	The striking rock face in the middle of the village opens up conglomerates of Mindel slab gravel. In the middle of the rock face is a cave castle, which can be visited with groups by appointment.	13000 650 × 20	Type: Rock Type: Conglomerate	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	no protected area
Quarry in Traunwalchen / Talmühle	more pictures	189A009	Traunreut position	Inn region	Mindel ceiling gravel is open-minded.	7000 100 × 70	Type: Rock Type: Conglomerate	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Molasse outcrop S from Tettenhausen		189A010	Waging at the lake position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	Glauconite sands and marl of the Upper Sea Molasse (Miocene) with oyster shells are exposed.	24000 800 × 30	Type: Rock, Animal Fossils Type: Sand, Marl	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Landscape protection area
Molasse and Quaternary around the Schloßberg S von Waging		189A013	Waging at the lake position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	On the Schloßberg S von Waging, the ravines of Ramgraben, Burgstallgraben and Lohgraben stretch to the west and south. Sand marl and sand-lime stones of the Upper Sea Molasse are largely accessible in the creek beds and slopes, largely without paths and not easily accessible. Marine macrofossils have been found in them in places. A profile recording is enclosed with the explanations of the geological map. In the middle part of the Lohgraben you can see unconsolidated moraine with large debris under a Nagelfluh of gravel. The tertiary subsoil is partly obscured by the ice push, and debris is partly incorporated into the subsoil. The debris can also be found tumbled down in the stream. They can consist of such exotic rocks as serpentinite - probably from the Tauern mountains.	130000 1300 × 100	Type: Layer sequence Type: Moraine, sand marl	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	no protected area
Molasse and Quaternary below the pilgrimage church Maria Mühlberg E von Waging		189A014	Waging at the lake position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	Sand-lime stones and marl of the Upper Sea Molasse are located above a hiking trail along the Dobelbach. The outcrop can be reached via Wildenhofen SE from Waging. A black to red-brown weathered Nagelfluh and about 2 m of weathered loam with gastropods had been excavated over these molasse layers. After a light gray Nagelfluh under the worm moraine follows above, the higher Nagelfluh must be assigned to the crack period, the weathered clay underneath to the Riss / Mindel interglacial and the Nagelfluh below to the Minde Ice Age. The Nagelfluh from the Risszeit can be reached from the pilgrimage church Maria Mühlberg on paths in the slope below. The explanations on the geological map say that it is not advisable to go into the demolition of the slope below this Nagelfluh to visit the old Pleistocene layer package without a safety rope.	20000 200 × 100	Type: layer sequence, fossil soil Type: marl, gravel, moraine	Slope crack / rock wall	especially valuable	Landscape protection area
Conglomerates of Aquitaine on the Blue Wall S of Traunstein	more pictures	189A015	Traunstein position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	The blue wall is part of the standard profile for the structure of the eastern Bavarian molasse. They show aquitaine conglomerates of the raisin marl type.	900 90 × 10	Type: Rock Type: Conglomerate	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	no protected area
Type locality Kressen-Graben SW of Neukirchen		189A017	Siegsdorf position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	The outcrop shows the classic formation of the South Helvetic ore facies along former ore mining sites. It represents a nationally significant fossil site. Due to cavities in the subsoil there is a danger to life. Therefore, the area is fenced and must not be entered. The geotope itself is not accessible.	6000 300 × 20	Type: standard / reference profile, sequence of layers, animal fossils, pinge field Type: sandstone, marl, limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	especially valuable	Ground monument
Road exposure at Raiten		189A018	Schleching position	Chiemgau Alps	Triassic and Jurassic rocks of the Allgäu ceiling emerge as windows of Raiten under the rocks of the overlying Lechtal ceiling (shell limestone and Wetterstein limestone). Most of the window rocks are under the Mettenhamer felt. the outcrop shows about 50 m in length and up to 10 m in height, wavy, folded and flaky limestone.	150 50 × 3	Type: fault, layer sequence, fold / hollow / saddle Type: pebble limestone	embankment	significant	no protected area
Quarry on Haßlberg SW of Ruhpolding	more pictures	189A021	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	The rocks of the Lechtal blanket on the upper north wing of the Hochfelln Mulde are exposed here. The layer sequence ranges from gray oolithic Malm limestone to red Malm limestone to gray Neokom limestone of the Schrambach strata. The mining took place mainly on the red, bulbous, fibrous limestone in Adnet facies (Ruhpolding marble). Operations ceased in 1970. Today a hiking trail leads through the area, the walls are used as a climbing garden.	52 500 375 × 140	Type: Layer sequence Type: Limestone	Quarry	precious	no protected area	Bavaria's most beautiful geotopes No. 79
Quarry E from Egerndach		189A022	Staudach-Egerndach position	Chiemgau Alps	The heavily folded rocks of the Allgäu ceiling are exposed. The quarry is rich in fossils. The break is very difficult to access and has deteriorated and overgrown.	33600 210 × 160	Type: layer sequence, animal fossils, fold / trough / saddle Type: limestone, marlstone	Quarry	precious	no protected area
Torgraben SW of Grassau		189A023	Grassau position	Chiemgau Alps	In the trench, the Jurassic layer sequence is exposed, which as Torgraben Mulde (NE part of the Kampenwand-Niederfels-Mulde) belongs to the Allgäu ceiling.	9900 330 × 30	Type: Layer sequence Type: pebble limestone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	significant	no protected area
Numulite limestone from the Höllgraben SSW of Bad Adelholzen		189A024	Siegsdorf position	Chiemgau Alps	The rock is made up of large foraminifera up to 10 cm in diameter. To the north and south of the Adelholzener layers are stocklettes.	300 30 × 10	Type: Animal Fossils, Layer Sequence Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	no protected area
Hilzinger Nummulite Reef NNW from Hilzing	more pictures	189A025	Siegsdorf position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	Large foraminifera can be found in the marl. Entering the former mining facilities is prohibited (danger of collapse!).	15 5 × 3	Type: Animal Fossils Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	no protected area
Hainz gravel pit on Waginger See SE by Musbach		189A026	Petting position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	In the gravel pit, gravel lies horizontally and discordantly over slanting delta gravel from the Worm Age that was poured into Lake Waginger. Maybe it's younger delta gravel over older. This is nice to see on the upper excavation level, accessible from the west. Do not enter the lower gravel pit area behind the campsite - private property.	1400 70 × 20	Type: Layer sequence, discordance Type: Gravel	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area
Helvetic profile at the Adelholzener mineral water factory		189A027	Siegsdorf position	Chiemgau Alps	On the embankment behind the new warehouse of the mineral water factory, a unique profile through the northern Helvetic region is exposed. In the southern part, Gerhardsreiter strata are waiting, which come up against Adelholzen strata with a clearly recognizable fault. In a narrow space there is a changing profile up to the Stockletten and the Lithothamnienkalk. The slope is at risk of slipping and is located within the fenced factory area. Entering the site is only possible after registration.	10400 260 × 40	Type: Type Locality, Animal Fossils, Fault Type: Marlstone, Limestone, Mudstone	embankment	especially valuable	no protected area
Gosau the Lackenbergwand E from Oberwössen		189A028	Reit im Winkl position	Chiemgau Alps	The summit structure of the Lackenberg is occupied by one of the few Bavarian Gosau deposits. There are mainly brecciated, reddish-gray limestones.	150,000 500 × 300	Type: Rock Type: Limestone	Rock slope / cliff	precious	no protected area
Quarry E von Hausmann (Hausmann Ost)		189A029	Inzell position	Chiemgau Alps	In the Hausmann Ost quarry, red tuber limestone from the Malm used to be mined. Today the area is used as a garden but is not fenced.	1750 50 × 35	Type: Rock type, Sedimentary structures Type: Limestone	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Quarry E von Hausmann (Hausmann West)		189A030	Inzell position	Chiemgau Alps	In the Hausmann West quarry, red Dogger spar limestone used to be mined. The exposed walls are well preserved, but the area is z. T. overgrown.	3600 60 × 60	Type: Rock type, Sedimentary structures Type: Limestone	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Quarry at the ice stadium SE in Inzell		189A031	Inzell position	Chiemgau Alps	In the quarry at the Inzell ice stadium, Wetterstein limestone is exposed, which has been severely disrupted due to its proximity to the thrust orbit of the Tirolikum on the Lechtal cover. Dirty-gray gypsum-clay rock from the Hasel Mountains is pressed into the crevices of the Wetterstein limestone. The quarry is used as an open-air stage and is not freely accessible.	9600 120 × 80	Type: sequence of layers, disturbance Type: limestone, claystone, gypsum	Quarry	precious	FFH area, bird sanctuary
Nagelfluh outcrop S from Siegsdorf	more pictures	189A032	Siegsdorf position	Chiemgau Alps	At the parking lot east of the Eisenärzt-Siegsdorf road, a conglomerate wall with partly very large limestone pebbles is exposed over a great length and height. The age is assumed to be the Middle to Old Pleistocene.	1200 100 × 12	Type: Rock Type , Terrace Type: Conglomerate	Rock slope / cliff	significant	no protected area
Gold-bearing conglomerates of Aquitan E von Hochberg		189A033	Traunstein position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	In historical times gold was panned from the brooks on the Hochberg, southeast of Traunstein, especially on the Röthelbach. The conglomerates of the tertiary sea molasses could be identified as the source of the gold. The gravel has a high proportion of rocks such as amphibolite, granite and vein quartz - rocks that typically occur in the central Alps with their known gold deposits. In the Kerbtal east of Hochberg, which has little water, there are sandy conglomerates of Aquitaine. A high proportion of quartz can be observed in the scree of the stream down to the Röthelbach. The chance of actually finding a gold tinsel in the rock here is extremely slim.	2000 100 × 20	Type: Rock type, Kerbtal Type: Conglomerate	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area
Quaternary Nagelfluh on Raibl Formation NW of Vordermiesenbach		189A034	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	On the steep bank of the Traun, below a hiking trail and only to be reached by carefully descending on a beaten path, there is the mighty Schotternagelfluh over slightly solidified moraine. The moraine is adjacent to a series of marlstones, roughnecks and black conglomerates, which are near the tectonic boundary between Kalkalpin and Flysch.	160 40 × 4	Type: Type of rock, layer sequence Type: conglomerate, Rauhwacke, marlstone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	significant	no protected area
Schöneck formation in the Galon-Graben W of Hachau		189A036	Siegsdorf position	Chiemgau Alps	The fish slates of the Schöneck Formation lie at the base of the deep marine Oligocene layer sequence of the Molasse Basin. Despite its low surface distribution, the Schöneck Formation has attracted considerable interest as it is regularly encountered in boreholes and is considered to be the main source rock for the oil and gas in the Molasse Basin. The Schöneck Formation consists of gray marls and shale clays and is rich in organic material. In the Galon Trench, the sequence of layers - dug up in places - is due. The steep slate clays show fish scales on the layered surfaces.	200 20 × 10	Type: Layer sequence, Rock type, Animal fossils Type: Mudstone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area
Bosch W quarry in Marquartstein		189A039	Marquartstein position	Chiemgau Alps	The impressive high quarry with a total of 100 m digs steep Wetterstein limestone from the Lechtal ceiling on several levels. On the north side, the Wetterstein limestone ends at the thrust track from Lechtal to Allgäu ceiling. The black claystones and pyrite-bearing marls, some of which are pressed between blocks of Wetterstein limestone, are layers of the Tannheim Formation (Lower Cretaceous) in the Allgäu Nappe. The light limestone is widely used, from crushed stone to armor stones and grit for terrazzo products. Do not enter the active quarry without permission from the management!	75000 500 × 150	Type: sequence of layers, storage conditions Type: Limestone, claystone	Quarry	precious	no protected area
Gosau base conglomerate near the Auerwandl SW of Oberwössen		189A040	Unterwössen position	Chiemgau Alps	The Auerwandl is a small climbing garden in the rock of the Oberrhätkalks on the forest road that leads up the Aßberggraben. About 60 m in front of the climbing wall, you can climb an incision to the right of the road without a path. The rocks to the left are made of Upper Rhätkalk. Magnificent corals are exposed under the rootstocks of fallen trees. The rock face to the right of the incision is made up of the Gosau base conglomerate. It's also found in lintel blocks all the way down to the street. The poorly sorted colorful conglomerate contains an abundance of different rocks from the Triassic to the Cretaceous. Of particular interest are shallow marine carbonates with rudists and corals (Urgon facies) of the Lower Cretaceous, which are no longer to be found in the Northern Limestone Alps today. Keep away from overhanging wall sections - risk of falling rocks!	1000 50 × 20	Type: Type of rock, sequence of layers, animal fossils Type: conglomerate, limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	no protected area
Oligocene of the Pötschgraben ENE from Reit im Winkl		189A041	Reit im Winkl position	Chiemgau Alps	The Pötschgraben on the topographic map is known in geological literature as the Pötschbichlgraben and was a well-known site of corals and molluscs from the Oligocene at the end of the 19th century. More recently, the outcrop has provided abundant microfossils. The layer sequence that used to be classified at this point in the cement marl of the Häringer layers is now assigned to the Paisslberg Formation after the reorganization. The partly sandy marls contain repeated breccia banks near the base. Such breccia layers can be found in the streambed behind the transverse construction directly behind the houses in Pötschbichl. The further pathless and arduous ascent in the stream bed is not particularly worthwhile. From about 830 m the layer sequence becomes more calcareous, contains fish scales and shell remains of snails and mussels in places and is placed in the Werlberg member. A detailed profile description can be found in Lindenberg (1965).	750 50 × 15	Type: Layer sequence Type: Marlstone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area
Fire spot formation near Urschlau SW of Ruhpolding		189A042	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	In the river bed of the Urschlauer Achen, to the southeast of Urschlau, banked breccias, sand-lime stones and marl stones of the Branderfleck formation are located. Further information can be found south of Urschlau an der Achen.	1400 280 × 5	Type: Type of stone, type of layer sequence : Breccia, sand-lime brick	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	FFH area
Main dolomite at the Schwarzachenalm SSE from Ruhpolding		189A043	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	On a rock face on the Danzingbach southwest of the Schwarzachenalm, the rhythmically finely layered and laminated dolomite rock of the lower main dolomite is clearly accessible. The thin-banked main dolomite is more or less bituminous.	500 50 × 10	Type: Rock Type: Dolomite Stone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	significant	Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Cave sediments in Raibl formation SSW of Bergen		189A044	Bergen position	Chiemgau Alps	Rauhwacken and dolomites of the Raibl formation are exposed wall-high on a forest path above the Weißachental. The rock contains clay-filled horizontal crevices with washed-in snail shells and remains of small animals. Caution, risk of falling rocks!	180 60 × 3	Type: Rock, Animal Fossils Type: Rauhwacke, Dolomite Stone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	no protected area
Asphalt in the flysch of the SSE steam ditch of Bergen		189A045	Bergen position	Chiemgau Alps	The Dampfgraben is the moat east of the Dampfalm. Only a short distance here is the steep flysch exposed to the likewise steep thrust of the Kalkalpin. Fissures on sandstones with interposed claystones of the Rehbreingraben formation contain asphaltic, black, shiny petroleum. Flurl (1805) already reports on the bitumen found in the previous year near Bergen. In 1950 the flysch of the steam trench was uncovered in a row of shears on behalf of DEA (Deutsche Erdöl AG). The outcrop can be reached from Maria-Eck-Str. In mountains, the stream can only be reached without a path, or initially a path east of it upwards.	500 50 × 10	Type: Rock Type: Sandstone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area
Type locality of the Schöneck formation SSE von Siegsdorf		189A046	Siegsdorf position	Chiemgau Alps	The Oligocene fish slate was discovered by Böhm (1891): black-gray, thin-leaved marl slate, abundantly with scales from Meletta sardinites HECKEL, in the Schönecker Graben and Habach. In the explanations of the geological map, the location of the outcrop and the geological conditions are described in detail. The fish slates are only 6 - 7 m thick and lie concordantly - with a layer gap - over the Stad formation (Stockletten) of the Upper Eocene. Since the flysch lies next to it discordantly on a steep and scaled Helvetic, the fish slates folded with the Helvetic are proof that the flysch can only have been pushed over after the fish slate has been deposited and folded in the lowest Oligocene. The exposure thus sets an important time marker and is of great paleogeographical significance.	75 15 × 5	Type: Type locality, Rock type, Animal fossils Type: Marlstone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area
Type locality of the Gerhartsreit layers NE by Gerhartsreit		189A047	Siegsdorf position	Chiemgau Alps	The few meters thick Gerhartsreit strata of the North Helvetic in the Gerhartsreiter Graben consist of black clay marl stones. They contain a rich but difficult to salvage macrofauna. In front of the entrance to the moat, there are panels under a roof reminding of the 45,000-year-old Siegsdorf mammoth that was found and excavated here. It is now in the Mammut Museum Siegsdorf.	600 60 × 10	Type: Type locality, Animal fossils Type: Clay marl	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area
Eocene and Quaternary of the old brine pipeline route S from Höpfling		189A048	Siegsdorf position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	A hiking trail leads from Höpfling west of the Traun to the south, which leads past the Kneipp facility (with the Nummulite limestone of the Bürgen formation directly behind it). 120 m further on, a spring brook built up cascades of tufa over marl stones (Stockletten) of the Stad formation. And shortly afterwards, vertical benches made of lithothamnian limestone (granite marble) stand in an old quarry. Greenish and reddish marl stones in small outcrops on the path south of Grub already belong to the marl series. For the way back, sure-footed people can take the old brine pipeline a little higher up on the slope. It is now overgrown and has slipped in places - be careful when walking through it! -, but still clearly visible in the digital terrain model (Fig. 4). To reach it you have to walk uphill without a path. The profile along the path is drawn and described in detail as a saline forest path in the explanations for the geological map. At this higher level, there are also advancing gravel from the crack age - solidified to Nagelfluh - and the old brine pipeline.	32500 650 × 50	Type: sequence of layers, type of rock Type: conglomerate, limestone, clay marlstone	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Marl stones of the upper lower sea molasse on the Osterbuchberg		189A049	Grabenstätt position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	In a deeply indented gorge on the south side of the Osterbuchberg there are gray, fine-layered marl stones of the upper lower sea molasses (Chatt clay marl) in the creek bed. The mighty marly layer sequence extends from the Upper Oligocene to the Lower Miocene. The fault that determined the direction of the valley is visible in the stream bed. The molasse hill of the Osterbuchberg was abraded by the ice age glaciers. The movement of the glacier ice from SW to NE can be guessed from the flat south side and the steep north side.	2400 120 × 20	Type: Layer sequence Type: Marlstone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area
Sandstones and conglomerates of the Chatt-Sands on Osterbuchberg		189A050	Grabenstätt position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	In an old quarry on the western spur of the Osterbuchberg, sandstones with conglomerates and gray marlstones from the Chatt sands (Upper Oligocene) of the Lower Sea Molasse are exposed.	20 10 × 2	Type: Type of rock, sequence of layers Type: sandstone, conglomerate	Gravel pit / sand pit	significant	no protected area
Sandstones of the Puchkirchen series on Westerbuchberg		189A051	Overseas position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	On the road to Westerbuchberg there are sandstones with conglomerates of the Puchkirchen series after Gasthof Zur Schöne Aussicht. Partly boulders are scattered in the sandstones. Another outcrop is 300 m up the road.	300 150 × 2	Type: Layer sequence Type: sandstone, conglomerate	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	no protected area
Iron ore mining area on the Teisenberg		189G001	Siegsdorf position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	In the Neukirchen / Achthal area, several synsedimentary ore deposits of tertiary age can be detected over a length of about 25 km. The Eocene floe, which plunges steeply to the south, contains the black and red seams that are worth mining. Ore mining on the Teisenberg has been documented since the 12th century. Until 1810, the NE part of the district was in the Salzburg area. The seams worth building are proven over a length of 4 km. The area was opened up by mining through numerous, now mostly broken, tunnels. Closure of operations: 1925. In 1955/56 the deposit was examined again. Estimated reserves of 30 million t of iron ore are not economically viable for the foreseeable future. The Karl tunnel near Kressenberg is barred and provides winter quarters for bats. Excellent documentation in the Achthal mining museum (www.bergbaumuseum-achthal.de). The site is still in disrepair. Fences and warning signs must therefore be observed! The object is under special protection as a ground monument (monument no. D-1-8142-0163).	1050000 2100 × 500	Type: Stollen, Pinge / nfeld Type: Sandstone	Open pit	precious	Ground monument
Lead-zinc ore mining on the Rauschberg SW of Inzell		189G002	Inzell position	Chiemgau Alps	At the Rauschberg near Inzell, lead-zinc mineralization was mined in the Wetterstein limestone. As elsewhere in the Alpine arc, lead and zinc stored syngenetically and finely distributed in the lime were later mobilized and concentrated in fault zones in the Wetterstein limestone to form minable mineralizations. Mining goes back to the 16th century. It continued with interruptions until 1925. Mining took place in several areas. FLURL (1792) writes of around 72 tunnels on the Rauschberg. The huge piles of mining on the northern slope of the Rauschberg are clearly visible from Inzell. They can be reached in an arduous climb on the narrow Knappensteig. In particular, zinc blende with a bit of lead sheen is found on the heaps. The mining was mainly based on calamine and silver-containing galena. The zinc blende could only be smelted in the 19th century and was therefore initially dumped on the dumps as worthless.		Type: tunnels, heaps, minerals Type: non-ferrous metal ore, limestone	Tunnel / gallery / shaft	precious	Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Historical Rauhwacke mining on Rabenstein NW of Ruhpolding		189G004	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	In 1861 Gümbel wrote of large quarries on Rauhwacke am Rabenstein, which delivered excellent building material, which is characterized by easy processing, great strength, less weight and dry masonry. Rauhwacke was used for numerous buildings in Ruhpolding, including a. for the tower of the parish church of St. Georg. The Rauhwacken of the Raibl formation form an elongated rock wall on the Rabenstein. Today the former quarries on the Rabenstein have been forgotten. In the digital elevation model from laser scan data, no clear degradation can be seen on the Rabenstein. However, the topographical first survey from the 19th century shows quarry symbols and access routes (Fig. 4). The impressive rock walls in the forest show no signs of degradation. The time from which the boreholes in the rock at a vantage point in the west towards Maria Eck came is unknown here.	36800 460 × 80	Type: Quarry / Pit Type: Rauhwacke	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Former Alabaster break on the Kaumalpe under the Hochfelln		189G006	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	Alabaster is a fine-grained variety of plaster of paris that is reminiscent of marble, but is softer and not weatherproof. Alabaster is processed artistically or by hand. The alabaster on the Kaumalpe was discovered in 1796 and Flurl reported on his visit there as early as March 1798. The snow-white alabaster appeared in plaster of paris in plaster of different sizes. In its color it is said to have surpassed the Italian alabaster. Soon it was being dismantled and delivered to Munich and Vienna. According to archive documents, the pit was buried under rubble in 1816, and that was probably the end of the dismantling process, although nature apparently still occasionally exposed the alabaster afterwards. In the collection of the State Office for the Environment there are still old pieces of evidence from the lost deposits. The old breakdown can be suspected in the buried bed of the Weißache itself. Of course, plaster of paris is nowhere to be found. Where Flurl still reports a bright white wall that can be seen from afar in the recessed white area, today barriers have filled the creek bed high with rubble. Naturally, the alabaster will no longer appear	18000 150 × 120	Type: Quarry / Pit Type: Plaster of Paris	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Former gypsum quarry on Silleck SW of Bergen		189G008	Bergen position	Chiemgau Alps	The gypsum quarry on the Silleck was marked on the map of the first Bavarian image in the middle of the 19th century and in 1861 near Gümbel it was even sketched with its geological conditions. According to Gümbel, the mighty plaster deposits were encased in Rauhwacke and breccia-like dolomite (the Raibl formation). The pit must have been abandoned a long time ago. Today the topographic map still contains the name Gipsgraben for the stream in the valley. In addition to the hiking trail - not shown on the topographical map - that leads up the valley to the depression between Köstelkopf and Silleck, there is a lighter forest at around 1,240 m and above it is undulating terrain with a few smaller holes, which were probably created by gypsum leaching. The clearest trace of the old gypsum extraction, however, is the transport route for the gypsum in the direction of mountains that can be seen in the digital terrain model on the opposite slope. It is overgrown in the area.	4000 80 × 50	Type: Quarry / Pit Type: Gypsum, Dolomite stone, Rauhwacke	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Lime kiln and quarry E from Staudach-Egerndach		189G009	Staudach-Egerndach position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	In the explanations of the geological map, sandy limestone with thin sandstone banks, coal seams and massive amounts of plant remains are described from this quarry over the Kössen formation. They correspond to a shallow water environment near the coast, can be found in the oldest Jura and are similar to the Gresten formation in Austria. In the hanging wall there should be marl with limestone banks and rich ammonite fauna. The extensive dumps in front of the quarry can be seen in the digital terrain model. According to old topographic maps, it may have been abandoned in the 1950s. An old building made of masonry should be a lime kiln.	32000 200 × 160	Type: Lime Kiln, Quarry / Pit Type: Limestone, Sandstone	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Historical Rauhwacke mining on the Mühlalpkopf SSE of Bergen		189G010	Bergen position	Chiemgau Alps	At the Mühlalpkopf - old publications also mention the Mühlaukopf - extensive dismantling of the Raibl formation on Rauhwacken was in progress for a long time. Gümbel wrote in 1861: Quarries in the Diesselbache and on the Mühlalpkopfe near Bergen produce extremely light, very dry and durable building materials (Maximilianshütte, Saline Traunstein, railway). At the access area of the overgrown old quarries, the forestry office occasionally extracts loose material from the debris for road construction. An old mining level with a beautiful view (be careful, stay away from the demolition edge!) In the Chiemgau and down to the former, now overgrown quarry area can be reached via a path drawn in the topographical map at an altitude of about 980 m. To the south-east there is a group of circular sinkholes in the main dolomite on the plateau of the Mühlalpkopf. Sinkholes are rather unusual in the main dolomite.	32000 400 × 80	Type: Quarry / Pit Type: Rauhwacke	Quarry	significant	no protected area
Former Quarry in the granite marble N of Schöneck		189G011	Siegsdorf position	Chiemgau Alps	The Lithothamnienkalk was discovered at the beginning of the 19th century as a monument and was then a popular stone for decades as Rosenheim granite marble. Today around 20% of the gravestones at the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich are made of this stone. From around 1870 it became noticeable that the stone is susceptible to weathering and not very suitable for outdoor use. Its use as cut stone ended in the 19th century. The Rosenheim granite marble is therefore a pointer stone for buildings from the mid-19th century. On the north side of the Schönecker Graben there are old quarries overgrown in Lithothamnienkalk with almost 20 m high walls. As the first photo from the middle of the 19th century shows - and still faintly recognizable in the digital terrain model - it was also mined south of the trench earlier. The sequence of layers in the digestion is vertical.	30000 300 × 100	Type: Quarry / Pit Type: Limestone	Quarry	precious	no protected area
Quarry and glacier cut SSE from Ruhpolding		189G012	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	At the foot of the Rauschberg, west of the Taubensee, the movement of the Würmzeit glacier has left round humps in the Haselberg limestone of the Upper Jura. Up in the alluvial forest there are rock walls polished by the glacier. The red Haselberg limestone was quarried as Ruhpolding marble in a quarry on the north side. Traces of rock extraction such as vertical drill holes and horizontal saw cuts can still be seen on the stepped excavation wall. In places the rock shows dry karst channels. An active quarry on the south side of the mountain cannot be entered. Here, Ruhpolding marble, which does not match the quality of the stone that was once used as stone, is extracted as rubble and rubble. It borders on the greenish limestone marl of the Schrambach formation.	59400 270 × 220	Type: quarry / pit, glacier cut, round hump Type: marl stone, limestone	Quarry	significant	Landscape protection area
Badger holes at Vogllug W von Marquartstein		189H001	Marquartstein position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The so-called badger holes are a small cave system in a rock ridge made of Wetterstein limestone. In the rubble-filled crevices in the limestone, the water collected from the wet meadows adjacent to the northwest now disappears and occasionally emerges on the other side of the ridge - across the street. The crevices are extended to classic cave profiles up to a height of 2 m above the meadow. The formation of the badger holes is seen post-glacial, when the rock ridge protruded as a peninsula into a lake that was dammed up by the Marquartstein landslide. After the lake ran out and the raised bog formed on the lake floor, the small catchment area drained for a while through the roof holes and expanded them. The explanations for the geological map contain a description and a plan of the badger holes.	3000 60 × 50	Type: Karst Horizontal Cave Type: Limestone	cave	precious	no protected area
Hölloch in Engelstein SW of Bergen		189H003	Bergen position	Chiemgau Alps	The Engelstein is an impressive rock wall made of Rauhwacken of the Raibl formation. At its eastern end is the signposted Hölloch, a column-like small cave. There are a few other small caves on Engelstein. The main rock with the summit cross can only be reached by sure-footed climbers who are free from giddiness and who should not do without rope safety. Footpaths that also require surefootedness lead to other vantage points on the rock wall.	10 10 × 1	Type: Karst halfway / natural bridge Type: Rauhwacke	cave	significant	no protected area
Weißbachquelle (water hole) SE from Inzell		189Q001	Inzell position	Chiemgau Alps	A narrow karst cave is hidden behind the small spring pot, which can be entered for a short distance when the water level is extremely low. The lower spring horizon lies on the border between Partnachschichten and Wetterstein limestone. The Weißbach, which rises in the waterhole, flows to the Saalach, while the water from the springs located below flows to the Traun. A high NaCl content in the water indicates that the water in the subsurface has come into contact with the Hasel Mountains.	2100 70 × 30	Type: Stratified Spring, Karst Horizontal Cave Type: Limestone	no information	precious	Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Kettle N by Wallmoning		189R001	Tittmoning position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	There are two silted up dead ice holes.	126000 700 × 180	Type: Dead Ice Hole Type: Moraine	no information	significant	Natural monument
Toteisloch SW from Klosterseeon	more pictures	189R002	Seeon-Seebruck position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The striking dead ice hole is partially silted up.	45000 250 × 180	Type: Dead Ice Hole Type: Moraine	no information	significant	Natural monument
Boulder Bitterstein WNW from Holzhausen	more pictures	189R003	Waging at the lake position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	The boulder in the Salzach glacier area consists of Wetterstein limestone.	12 4 × 3	Type: Boulder Type: Limestone	block	significant	Natural monument
Bog NW of Egerer	more pictures	189R004	Chieming position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The Kalkflachmoor lies in the long-term fluctuation range of the groundwater.	11500 230 × 50	Type: Fen Type: Peat	no information	significant	Natural monument
Nagelfluhblock near Traunstein	more pictures	189R006	Traunstein position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	The considerable fall block consists of the at least Ice Age Nagelfluh.	70 10 × 7	Type: Rockslide Type: Conglomerate	no information	significant	no protected area
Toteisloch Pfeffersee in Chieming	more pictures	189R008	Chieming position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The lake lies in a moraine corner filled with young deposits. The reason for this lies in the late thawing of the dead ice floe after the Krebsbach consolidated its course north of the lake, thus avoiding the lake's replenishment.	26875 215 × 125	Type: Dead Ice Hole Type: Moraine	no information	significant	Landscape reserve, bird sanctuary
Traces of peat extraction in the S-Hochmoor in Preising		189R009	Traunstein position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	The raised bog is currently still being dismantled.	1360000 1700 × 800	Type: raised bog, peat cut Type: peat	no information	significant	Natural monument, FFH area
Devil's hole in the twin wall of the Hochplatte		189R010	Schleching position	Chiemgau Alps	The Teufelsloch is a natural window through the twin wall on the Hochplatte (Wetterstein limestone from the Wimbachermulde of the Lechtal ceiling). It is clearly visible from Schleching and Mühlau.	30000 500 × 60	Type: rock castle, karst halfway / natural bridge Type: limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	no protected area
Sinkholes near Lanzing		189R011	Marquartstein position	Chiemgau Alps	The two sinkholes are presumably above the plaster-bearing Rauhwackenzone of the Raibler layers.	11200 280 × 40	Type: sinkhole Type: Breccia, Rauhwacke	no information	precious	no protected area
Buckelwiese and sinkholes near Schleching		189R012	Schleching position	Chiemgau Alps	The humpback meadows represent a geomorphological peculiarity of the alpine region. They were created during the last ice retreat stages in the periglacial climatic area.	3500 70 × 50	Type: humpback meadow Type: gravel	no information	precious	Natural monument
Grießenbach waterfall near Rottau		189R013	Grassau position	Chiemgau Alps	The waterfall was created in the main dolomite of the Haindorf-Schwarzenberg zone. This zone forms the north wing of the mighty Kampenwand-Niederfels-Mulde of the Allgäu-ceiling.	100 10 × 10	Type: waterfall, brine pipe Type: dolomite stone, Rauhwacke	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	significant	no protected area
Hochmoor E from Gstatt (Pfitzen)		189R014	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	The valley high moor with its typical bulge is designated as a natural monument.	52250 275 × 190	Type: raised bog Type: peat	no information	significant	Natural monument
Debris cone on the western slope of Rauschberg E von Waich		189R015	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	Various phases of soil development can be clearly seen on the elongated cone of rubble.	350000 1000 × 350	Type: Rubble Cones Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Landscape protection area, FFH area, bird sanctuary
High moor between Breitmoos and Paulöd		189R016	Inzell position	Chiemgau Alps	The unwooded raised bog area is surrounded by fen formations that could develop in the east to the raised bog stage with small bog forest.	200000 500 × 400	Type: raised bog, low bog Type: peat	no information	significant	FFH area, bird sanctuary
Klausenbachklamm SW of Blindau		189R017	Reit im Winkl position	Chiemgau Alps	The gorge section developed where the stream crosses from the main dolomite into the limestone.	8000 400 × 20	Type: Canyon Type: Limestone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	no protected area
Inzeller Filzen high moor northwest of Inzell		189R018	Inzell position	Chiemgau Alps	The approximately 100 hectare moor deposits are only covered by individual trees. A heavily peat high moor area lies above the low moor. In the center of the moor there is a rubbish dump (1973).	1050000 1500 × 700	Type: raised bog Type: peat	no information	significant	no protected area
Buckelwiesen and karst of the Hemmersuppenalmen SE of Blindau		189R019	Reit im Winkl position	Chiemgau Alps	In addition to the high-lying moor, karst features can be found in the slab of limestone. The dissolution processes were intensified by the strongly carbonated moor water.	700000 1000 × 700	Type: humpback meadow, carts / fields Type: moraine, limestone	Rock slope / cliff	significant	FFH area
Natural weir in the Alz and Alzhang NW of Altenmarkt	more pictures	189R020	Altenmarkt on the Alz position	Inn region	Above the road bridge, and clearly visible from here, the Alz flows over a rock barrier made of gravel conglomerates. In the uppermost part, the natural weir is raised by an artificial weir.	22500 150 × 150	Type: waterfall, impact slope Type: conglomerate	Slope crack / rock wall	significant	Landscape protection area
Klobenstein on the Traun N of Traunstein	more pictures	189R021	Traunstein position	Inn region	Between the river and the rocky steep slope lies the pebbled stone, a large Nagelfluh block split in two with a Marienkapelle. The Nagelfluhblock comes from the steep slope from the gravel. According to legend, a knight was saved from his enemies while praying to the statue of the Mother of God.	70 10 × 7	Type: rock fall, rock type: conglomerate	block	significant	no protected area
Tumulus at Unteröd		189R022	Tittmoning position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	A tumulus is a small mound that emerged from debris in a glacier mill. Melt water had found a way down from the surface of the glacier. Moraine material was washed up at the glacier base, which marks the former location of the glacier mill after the glacier melted. The tumulus near Unteröd is protected as an extensive natural monument. It bears a rare juniper heather vegetation.	6000 100 × 60	Type: Tumulus Type: Conglomerate	other information	significant	Natural monument
Ice crumbling landscape of the Bansee SW of Seeon		189R023	Seeon-Seebruck position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The melting of dead ice masses after the retreat of the Inn Glacier has left terrain depressions with lakes between the moraine walls of various retreat stages, some of which silted up over time. Moors formed. The Bansee with its silting bogs is part of the Seeoner Seen nature reserve.	1200000 1500 × 800	Type: ice crumbling landscape, transitional moor Type: moraine, peat	no information	significant	Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Ice crumbling landscape of the lake area S of Schnaitsee		189R024	Schnaitsee position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The terminal moraines of the furthest advance (Kirchseeon Stadium) of the Würmzeitlichen Inn-Chiemsee or more precisely here of the Prien glacier lie near Schnaitsee. In the lake landscape a little to the south, oser and dead ice holes can be found in a wide valley between moraines. Meltwater from the ice retreat has deposited gravel and shaped the previously existing glacial forms. Further to the northeast - SE of Schnaitsee - the meltwater could break through the outer moraine wall. Boreholes have drilled up to 65 m of gravel and sand down to the tertiary subsurface. Some of them have already been conglomerated as a Nagelfluh at a depth of less than 10 m and may then have to be put into the crack.	1200000 1500 × 800	Type: Ice crumbling landscape Type: Gravel	no information	precious	Landscape protection area
Schluckloch Eglsee E from Seeon	more pictures	189R025	Seeon-Seebruck position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The Eglsee is remarkable in that it just (2017) does not exist again. There is currently a green field where a lake is drawn in the current topographic map. If you look at the maps of the Bavarian first recording from the middle of the 19th century or at the time travel in the BayernAtlas ( https://geoportal.bayern.de/bayernatlas ) you will see that sometimes one to three 3 little lakes of different sizes exist and grassland is mapped again in between. The Eglsee is a sinkhole for the only drainage of the Seeon chain of lakes. It lies as a dead ice hole in the Apperting gravel corridor, a meltwater runoff from a retreat stage of the Inn-Chiemsee glacier. The connecting trenches of the Seeon chain of lakes, like the trench to the Eglsee, are artificially created. The lakes following Griessee and Brunnensee are all above the groundwater level and give off lake water to the groundwater. Only after heavy rainfall does water flow from the Klostersee to the Eglsee.	73500 350 × 210	Type: Stream Shrink Type: Gravel	no information	precious	no protected area
Breakthrough valley of the Tiroler Achen S from Ettenhausen		189R026	Schleching position	Chiemgau Alps	From the state border, the Tiroler Achen breaks through the steep stratification of the Oberwössen Mulde over a length of 1 km from the Ammergau formation of the Upper Jura to the main dolomite of the Triassic. Hard ribs from the siliceous limestone of the Lower and Middle Jurassic and Upper Rhaetian Limestone form bottlenecks. In the softer layers in between, the valley floor is widened and gravel banks are piled up. Current ripples from the last high water level can be seen in sandy depressions. There are no paths into the valley floor of the nature reserve. The scenery is best viewed from a raft, canoe or kayak.	100000 1000 × 100	Type: breakthrough valley Type: pebble limestone	Impact slope / river bed / stream profile	precious	Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Entenloch on the Tiroler Achen near Klobenstein	more pictures	189R027	Schleching position	Chiemgau Alps	The Entenloch or Antenloch is a bottleneck in the Tiroler Achen and forms the state border between Bavaria and Tyrol. The previously only 3.4 m wide opening in a rock made of Upper Rhätkalk led to backwater and flooding in the Kössen Valley due to blockage with tree trunks, so that the narrow area was widened to around 12 m wide by blasting in 1906/07. The gravel bank in front of the Entenloch and a suspension bridge with a beautiful view are accessible via the Klobenstein inn in Tyrol. The flood of the century in June 2013 reached up to the bridge, which was damaged by driftwood.	480 40 × 12	Type: Klamm Type: Limestone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Sinkholes of the Sauermöseralm WSW of Oberwössen		189R028	Unterwössen position	Chiemgau Alps	In the meadow area around the Stoibenmöseralm and Sauermöseralm there are a number of sinkholes. Sinkholes in layers of the Gosau are likely to be rare in the Bavarian Alpine region. Unfortunately branches and stones are thrown into some of the holes.	13200 220 × 60	Type: Dolinenfeld Type: Lime sandstone	Sinkhole / sinkhole	precious	no protected area
Karrenfelder and Gosau the Stoibenmöseralm near Oberwössen		189R029	Unterwössen position	Chiemgau Alps	Sediments from the Gosau group are not widespread in the Bavarian Alps. All the more remarkable are the karren fields in the brownish, weathering limestone of the Lower Gosau in the vicinity of the Stoibenmöseralm. The rock is noticeable because of its content of sharp-edged, small chert fragments.	90000 600 × 150	Type: carts / fields Type: sand-lime brick	Rock slope / cliff	precious	no protected area
Glacier garden at Wimmerkreuz SE from Reit im Winkl		189R030	Reit im Winkl position	Chiemgau Alps	In the Reit im Winkl basin, layers of the Oligocene Paisslberg Formation (Werlberg member) are due. A round hump made of limestone from this sequence of layers, left by the glacier advance of the Worms Ice Age, contains a barrow field formed from the pre-ice age and ground down by the glacier. Glacier mills in the ice have also sunk glacier pots into the rock. The glacier garden at Wimmerkreuz can be reached in ten minutes from the center of Reit im Winkl.	900 30 × 30	Type: carts / fields, glacier mills, round humps Type: limestone	Rock slope / cliff	precious	no protected area
Moors and karsts of the Winklmoos-Alm E from Seegatterl		189R031	Reit im Winkl position	Chiemgau Alps	On the Winklmoos-Alm there are humpback meadows and drainage-free depressions with sinkholes on the Würmzeit moraine. Carts are built in the limestone of the Kössen formation. Ecologically valuable raised and fens are z. B. below the Traunsteiner Hut.	525000 750 × 700	Type: raised bog, sinkhole, carts / fields Type: limestone	Sinkhole / sinkhole	precious	no protected area
Debris cone of the Wilder Hausgraben at Lödensee		189R032	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	After the Ice Age, the Weitseetal was carved out by the glacier and filled with a lake. Debris flows, especially from the main dolomite of the Dürrnbachhorn chain in the south, have already given rise to three lakes that are facing increasing siltation. A cone of debris from the Wilder Hausgraben is pushing forward at Lödensee. To the east of the lake, the B305 is lowered into a ford on Langen Sand so as not to be an obstacle to flowing water and debris.	2520000 4200 × 600	Type: Rubble cone Type: Dolomite stone	other information	significant	Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Dolines of the Hochkienbergalm SW of Ruhpolding		189R033	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	The area of the abandoned Hochkienbergalm is littered with small sinkholes, which can be found both in the widespread Raibl formation and in the Wetterstein limestone (on the southern edge of the high plateau). The Raibl Formation is made up of limestone-dolomite sequences with intermediate shale clays (best exposed in the upper Ostertal below the Hörndlwand). In the northeast, below the Gurnwandkopf in Raibler Dolomit, an elongated depression without drainage is formed. It follows a widespread disturbance and could be called Uvala. Several remains of the walls of derelict alpine buildings are scattered over the former alpine area. Where the Hochkienbergalm (author.) Is indicated on the map, a spring stream disappears after a short stretch of flow in a sinkhole (Ponor). The Hochkienbergalm is remote and a little-visited, quiet gem. The easiest way leads from Seehaus over the Branderalm and the Ostertal in about 3 hours.	550000 1100 × 500	Type: Dolinenfeld Type: Limestone, sandstone, mudstone	Sinkhole / sinkhole	precious	Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Röthelmoos SW of Ruhpolding		189R034	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	The Röthelmoos with its clock-glass-like arched high moor areas and its flora and fauna is of outstanding ecological importance. The formation of the bog is partly due to the water retaining marl of the Schrambach formation. These marls are exposed at the object point directly on the way to the Dandlalm . They carry fossil remains (belemnites, ammonites). The bog contains meandering streams. It is surrounded by pastures. Please do not enter the moorland.	400000 1000 × 400	Type: raised bog Type: marlstone	other information	significant	Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Karrenfeld and sinkholes of the Bischofsfellnalm W von Ruhpolding		189R035	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	There is a cart field right next to the Bischofsfellnalm buildings. According to the geological map, it is in the main dolomite, which in itself does not tend to form carts. However, the calcareous inclusions reported from the uppermost main dolomite could also be karstified here. There are individual sinkholes in the vicinity. A real sinkhole field is formed in the Wetterstein limestone on the other side of the terrain in the south.	110,000 550 × 200	Type: carts / fields, sinkhole Type: dolomite stone	Sinkhole / sinkhole	precious	no protected area
Sinkholes and ponors of the Eschelmooses W of Ruhpolding		189R036	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	In Eschelmoos, on the watershed between Weißachen and Urschlauer Achen, there are two large dolines - under a recent overburden, presumably in the Wetterstein limestone, not far from the border to the Raibl formation and on a fault line. The water that collects on the alpine pastures and flows into two ponors in the sinkhole to the east is most likely to flow underground to the Weißachen through the Wetterstein limestone bar in the north.	3000 150 × 20	Type: Doline, Ponor Type: Limestone	Sinkhole / sinkhole	precious	no protected area
Sonntagshorn and Großer Sand		189R037	Ruhpolding position	Chiemgau Alps	The summit structure of the Sonntagshorn, with its distinctive stratification that can be seen from afar, consists of plate limestone. The valley head of the Hinterer Kraxenbach is filled by the large sand - huge cones of rubble that pull down from the foot of the wall of the Vorderlahner Kopf and Sonntagshorn. In the lower wall part of the Sonntagshorn, the main dolomite is already on the horizon, which has flanked the valley all the way up in Vorderer and Hinterer Kraxenbachschneid. From Laubau to the foot of the Großer Sand there is an altitude difference of 800 meters and about 3 hours of hiking time.	182000 700 × 260	Type: Rubble Cone Type: Limestone, Dolomite Stone	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	Nature reserve, FFH area, bird sanctuary
Estuary of the Tiroler Achen in the Chiemsee	more pictures	189R038	Chiemsee (municipality) position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The confluence of the Tiroler Achen in the Chiemsee is the best preserved inland delta in Central Europe. After the Ice Age, the Chiemsee was 3 to 4 times its size today. Since then it silts up - today by 1.3 hectares annually. The Tiroler Achen transports 300,000 m³ of fine mineral parts and around 10,000 m³ of gravel and rubble to the Chiemsee per year. It is estimated that the Chiemsee will be completely silted up in 8,000 to 10,000 years. The branched channels, sand and gravel banks of the delta are the core zone of the nature reserve and are not accessible. The view of the delta in the aerial photo is impressive (Fig. 4). The delta can be seen from 2 observation towers - in the east at Hirschauer Bucht and in the west north of Lachsgang. Bring binoculars!	3750000 2500 × 1500	Type: Alluvial Fan Type: Sand, Clay	no information	especially valuable	Nature reserve, landscape protection area, FFH area
Ice crumbling landscape of the Tüttensee	more pictures	189R039	Grabenstätt position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	When the ice retreat of the Inn-Chiemsee-Glacier, a rag of ice was apparently preserved in the Grabenstätter Bay, after which the Tüttensee's dead ice basin and the small dead-ice holes in the Tütten wood were created. With at times considerable media interest, a regional research group regards Lake Tüttensee as the product of a Chiemgau impact, the impact of a comet / asteroid in the Bronze / Iron Age. Soundings in the eastern silting zone of the Tüttensee within the wall form have yielded peat up to 2.5 m deep and sea chalk up to 4.0 m deep. C14 dating from depths of 0.6 to 2.8 m indicated ages of 4,420 to 12,750 years (Cal BP). A formation of the hollow shape of the Tüttensee by a recent impact can thus be excluded.	1300000 1300 × 1000	Type: ice crumbling landscape, dead ice hole Type: peat, chalk, moraine	no information	precious	Landscape protection area
Erlstätt dry valley		189R040	Grabenstätt position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	The present dry valley of Erlstätt is part of the meltwater channel of Vachendorf-Erlstätt, one of the most important glacial forms in the area east of the Chiemsee. The meltwater channel begins near Adelholzen in the south and extends north-northwest until it reaches the Chiemsee near Chieming. To the east of the gravel-filled channel lie the moraine of the Ebersberger (ice retreat) stage with a significant jump in height, to the west of it the flatter moraines of the Ölkofener stage. The meltwater channel drained the edge of the ice. The digital terrain model gives a good overview of the course of the channel (Fig. 4). In the photo, only the transition from the flat valley floor to the adjacent moraine ranges can be recorded.	7500000 5000 × 1500	Type: Schmelzwassertal Type: Gravel	other information	precious	no protected area
Aquitan fish slate in the Zillerholz S of Traunstein		189A052	Traunstein position	Salzach-Jungmoränenregion	In the Zillerholz east of the Traun there are gray, thin-layered and flaky (paper slate) fish slates in the ditch of a stream and on a forest road that has recently been widened. They contain fish scraps, mostly scales, and are placed in Aquitaine.	3 3 × 1	Type: Type of rock, type of layers : Slate	Slope crack / rock wall	precious	FFH area
Calamine mining on the Hochstaufen		189G003	Inzell position	Chiemgau Alps	The mining on Galmeierze at Hochstaufen ended at the beginning of the 18th century. The calamine was used to manufacture brass in the Rosenheimer Hütte. Since metallic zinc was only discovered in Europe in the 18th century, the refining of copper to brass by adding calamine was a more alchemical process up until then. The mining took place in difficult to access terrain below the Hochstaufen summit. The formation of the Pb-Zn ores took place syngenetically with later relocation into the fissures of the Wetterstein limestone. Limestone with calamine can be found in the rubble of the eastern Staufenkar. At the bottom at the end of the Staufenkar are the ruins of an ore depot ("Artzkasten").	24000 400 × 60	Type: dump, mine type: non-ferrous metal ore, limestone	embankment	precious	no protected area
Achberg subrosion landscape		189R041	Schleching position	Chiemgau Alps	The terrain around Achberg - as they can now be seen very well in the digital terrain model (Fig. 4) - was noticed early on as unusual: drainage-free depressions and gently rounded hills with the main dolomite. Only a small occurrence of Rauhwacke of the Raibl formation on the road on the edge of the forest in the southwest indicates that plaster of paris is or was also present here under the main dolomite in a saddle core. Achberg's subrosion landscape created the solution to its path.	450,000 1000 × 450	Type: Subrosion landscape Type: Dolomite stone, Rauhwacke	Sinkhole / sinkhole	precious	no protected area
Marquartstein landslide		189R042	Marquartstein position	Inn-Chiemsee-Jungmoränenregion	With an estimated deposit volume of 40 million m³, the Marquartstein landslide is the second largest landslide in Bavaria. In the postglacial event, an originally existing western pre-summit of the Hochlerch is said to have broken off. The falling masses cover an area of about 3 km². The rocks that stood up on the Hochlerch and fell to the valley include a wide range of dolomite stones from the main dolomite to clay marl and limestones from the Upper Triassic to the Jura. In an earlier quarry at the object point, red, crinoid-bearing limestones of the Lower Jurassic were extracted from the rubble of the landslide. The landslide masses have a remarkable finger-shaped spread, as it is known from another landslide in the Ammertal (geotope 180R040).	5175000 3450 × 1500	Type: Rockslide Type: Limestone	other information	precious	no protected area