Quarry

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The quarry is a series of geological breaks on the northwestern edge of the Vienna basin .

The break system (a typical relay break ) runs roughly from north-northeast to south-southwest, begins roughly at the border between Lower Austria and Moravia east of Břeclav (Lundenburg) and ends 15 kilometers northeast of Vienna at Eibesbrunn . The quarry is a 50 kilometer long, steeply sloping, southeast dipping area between the basin sediments and the solid underground of the Vienna basin. It is the result of a deportation . At its steepest point, the fracture system has a jump height of 6,000 meters and separates the Mistelbach high floe (where large oil fields are) from the Zistersdorf Depression below the Marchfeld , about 50 kilometers northeast of Vienna.

The Vienna Basin is criss-crossed by a few hundred fractures, which represent an old weak zone in the earth's crust between the Eastern Alps and the Carpathian Mountains . The quarry is the mightiest of these underground faults , followed by the Leopoldsdorfer Bruch a little further south.

literature

  • Erich Thenius: Lower Austria (geology of the Austrian federal states in brief individual representations). Publishing house of the Federal Geological Institute, Vienna 1974.
  • Arthur Kröll u. a .: Vienna Basin and adjacent areas . Federal Geological Institute, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-900312-88-5 (Geological map 1: 200,000, 4 sheets).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Austrian oil industry (=  special issue . No. 10 ). Austrian Institute for Economic Research, Vienna February 1957, p. 8 ([www.wifo.ac.at/bibliothek/archiv/9064/9064_10.pdf full text] [PDF; 21.1 MB ; accessed on June 12, 2019]).
  2. ^ Title of the accompanying explanations: Explanations of the maps of the underground of the Vienna Basin and the adjacent areas.