Tillmannsdorfer saddle
The Tillmannsdorfer Sattel , also Tillmannsdorfer Falte , is a geological outcrop in the Wülfrath district of Tillmannsdorf south of the village of Düssel on the city limits of Wuppertal and is protected as a natural monument and entered in the Wülfrath soil monument list . The Eulenkopfweg hiking trail leads past the outcrop.
geology
The Tillmannsdorfer saddle forms a 3rd order fold (small-scale fold in the meter range) with a wavelength of about 15 meters. The height of the saddle is about 4 m above the ground.
In the Devonian , the area north of Wuppertal was covered by a shallow sea with reef . In the later Carboniferous period , calcite from calcareous animals was deposited there along with the lime from reef corals that dissolve in cold times in several layers of coal lime on the sea floor.
As a result of the Variscan mountain formation around 300 million years ago, this subsurface unfolded in waves and formed saddles and humps of stratified rock. The weathering leveled most of the saddles again, in some places like the Tillmannsdorfer saddle this fold has been preserved to this day.
literature
- Paul Reising, News from the Eulenkopfweg - The history of stones, plants, animals and people on the north-western edge of the city of Wuppertal , Born Verlag, ISBN 3-87093-068-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Mettmann district landscape plan. Textual representations and stipulations as well as explanations. (PDF) Kreis Mettmann, 2012, p. 414 , accessed on November 14, 2016 (section on the natural monument C 2.6-15 geological outcrop “Tillmannsdorfer Fold” on the road to Wülfrath Unterdüssel ).
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 30 " N , 7 ° 3 ′ 23" E