Pienine rock belt
The Pienin Rock Belt ( Polish : Pieniński Pas Skałkowy ) is a geological structure from the Jurassic era in the Carpathian Mountains . It is named after the Pieninen mountain range .
location
The Pieninen rock belt begins east of Vienna and stretches for about 600 km in an arc across Slovakia, Poland and the Ukraine to Romania. The arch is only a few hundred meters to a maximum of 20 km wide and consists of limestone rocks. It divides the Carpathian Mountains into the Inner and Outer Carpathians. For the most part, however, it runs underground, as it is overlaid by younger geological layers. It breaks spectacularly only in the Skalice Nowotarskie on the northern edge of the Podhale region and in the Pieninen to the surface of the earth. It was described by the Polish geologist Stanisław Staszic at the beginning of the 19th century . However, the term was first coined by the Austrian Melchior Neumayr in 1871.
Classification
The Pieninen rock belt can be divided into:
literature
- Witold Henryk Paryski, Zofia Radwańska-Paryska: Wielka encyklopedia tatrzańska. Wydawnictwo Górskie, Poronin 2004, ISBN 83-7104-009-1 .
- Józef Nyka: Pieniny. Przewodnik. 9th edition. Trawers, Latchorzew 2006, ISBN 83-915859-4-8 .
- Pieniny polskie i słowackie. Mapa turystyczna 1:25 000. Agencja Wydawnicza "WiT" sc, Piwniczna 2008, ISBN 978-83-907671-3-0 .