Southern Limestone Alps

The Southern Limestone Alps are that part of the Limestone Alps that is in front of the main Alpine ridge in the Eastern Alps . They form a series of mountain ranges that together are around 450 kilometers long and lie on Austrian , Slovenian and Italian territory.

Geologically, they largely belong to the so-called Southern Alps (Alps south of the periadriatic seam ), but also include the Drauzug and the northern Karawanken (including Obir , Petzen ) according to their geographical definition . Both of the last-named mountain ranges lie north of the periadriatic seam, so geologically belong to the Eastern Alps and, strictly speaking, should be included in the Northern Limestone Alps , from which they are separated by the entire width of the Central Alps .

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The Alpine Club division of the Eastern Alps (AVE) is the convention of the Alpine clubs on the structure of the Eastern Alps. Alternative names are given

From east to west there are the following mountain groups 2.  Steiner Alps 3.  Karawanken and Karawanken foothills (southern border of the Austrian state of Carinthia ) 4.  Julian Alps (in Slovenia and in the Italian region of Friuli ) 5.  Gailtal Alps / Drauzug including Lienz Dolomites 6.  Carnic main ridge of the Alps , together with the northern Friulian Dolomites and Carnia : Northern Carnic Alps (southern border of Carinthia) 7.  Southern Carnic Alps , also: southern Friulian Dolomites and Venetian Alps 8.  Dolomites with Sexten Dolomites , Marmolada , Sella 9.  Fiemme Valley Alps 10. Vicentine Alps 11. Nonsberg group 12. Brenta 00 Ortler main ridge 1 ; Main peaks made of lime and dolomite 13. Garda mountains 15. Adamello Presanella Group 00 Bergamasque Alps 1

The groups marked here 1. Bacher Mountains , 14th Ortler Group , and 16 Sobretta-Gavia Group belong to the crystalline-schistigen central part of the Alps ( Central Alps ) 1 Not marked here

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