Karsten Schmidt

Tectonic Wall

A pretty famous geotope in the Allgäuer Alps with extreme folds and layering. The hundreds of meters thick top layer of mostly Dolomite belongs to the Lech valley thrust sheet (215 million years old) which got pushed above the Allgäu sheet below (190 million years old, here mostly covered by overgrown talus fields) and Radiolarite from the Ruhpolding formation even further below (160 million years old and originally 2000 meter below sea level — hard to imagine!).

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Mar 26 at 8:00amWeb
Show threadDaniel MurphyMar 26
@toxi wow! The geology in that crag is beautiful, and makes some lovely texture in that photo 😍
Show threadKarsten SchmidtMar 26
@DanHatesNumbers Yeah, I think so too! It's such an inspiring place & hike. You can also see fossilized fragments of coral, brachiopods, etc. near the path. The image unfortunately doesn't quite capture/communicate the size of this wall (~3km wide)...
Show threadskryMar 26
@toxi Fascinating! Thanks for explaining the layers.