NASSFELD - Geopark Karnische Alpen

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Karnischer Höhenweg
(Südalpenweg 03)
Gailtaler Höhenweg
DISCOVERING THE GEOPARK
(ADVENTURE GEOPARK)
The 1000 square kilometer Carnic Alps Geopark
invites you on a journey back in time to discover
the Earth's past. There is no other place where
one can find within such a small and scenic
landscape so many documents of the
Earth's heritage.
NASSFELD
GEOTRAIL
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GEOTRAIL
NASSFELD
More than 70 sites between the villages of
Feistritz in the eastern Gail Valley and Maria
Luggau in the Lesach Valley can be visited
to discover the journey through time which lasts
several hundred million years. The hiker will
encounter spectacular waterfalls, mystical
canyons, vertical cliffs, quiet mountain lakes
and fossilized marine and terrestrial faunas
and floras.
In the Geopark man plays only a minor role. The
keystone is the elementary power of nature and
geological times which convey an unforgettable
impression to every visitor. The exciting history
starts some 500 million years ago. At that time
the oldest rocks of our mountains were deposited
in an ocean on the other side of the globe. Since
then they have been on a real odyssey from cool
climate during the Ordovician to moderate and
tropic latitudes in the Devonian. At the end of
the Palaeozoic Era, the Permian, the area
experienced a desert climate. In the following
Triassic Period the continental plates crossed the
equator and drifted during the Mesozoic and
Cenozoic Eras centimeter by centimeter towards
present latitudes. Finally, during the Pleistocene
Epoch ice formed the landscape as it is seen
today. Some 20.000 years ago the glaciers
started melting and men invaded the Geopark to
settle and cultivate mountains and valleys alike.
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Location of the Naßfeld Geotrail in the Geopark
Für den Inhalt verantwortlich: Prof. Hans Peter Schönlaub, Kötschach/Mauthen.
Gestaltung: Monika Brüggemann-Ledolter, Geologische Bundesanstalt.
www:geopark-karnische-alpen.at
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Left: Fossil debris from mainly brachiopods (Genera Productus and Spirifer) from the
Auernig-Formation. (Naßfeld, west of Krone)
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Below: Thin section with longitudinal and cross sections of fusulinids
(unicellular Foraminifera) from Limestone Bed s of the top of mountain Auernig.
Bottommost: Leaves of the fern Pecopteris sp. from plant locality west of Krone.
Topographie: BEV - 2009, vervielfältigt mit Genehmigung des BEV in Wien, T2009/56516.
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Gartnerkofel
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Naßfeldpaß
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THE NASSFELD GEOTRAIL
In geological textbooks about Austria the term
„Naßfeld“ is almost equivalent to Carboniferous and rich
occurrences of all kinds of marine and land-derived
fossils. About half way up to the pass post-Variscan
deposits unconformably overly older strata. These
younger rocks exhibit almost horizontal bedding which
can best be seen on the southern slope of Mount
Auernig at the state border or at the northern cliff of
Mount Gartnerkofel. The latter represents the youngest
strata in this area reflecting dolomites of Middle Triassic
age some 220 million years old.
Access:
Tröpolach - Road to Naßfeld - Parking Watschig Alm.
Route: Watschig Alm (1625 m) - Kühweg Törl
(1914 m) – Mount Kammleiten (1998 m) – Cable road
Station Gartnerkofel (1960 m) – Mount Garnitzen
(1940 m) – Mount Auernig (1863 m) - Watschig Alm.
Length:
Duration:
About 5 km.
4 - 5 hours.
Auernig
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Boards:
1: Scenery of Naßfeld 300 million years ago.
2/1: Muschelkalk Conglomerate, the most colourful
rock in the surrounding.
2/2: Pin pricking the mountain - a drill hole to solve
one of the world's mysteries.
Distant view from the peak Kammleiten.
3: The dominating rock of mountain Gartnerkofel.
4: Lithified lime mud.
Panoramic view from Naßfeld to the Hohe Tauern
region.
5: River gravel transformed to quartz conglomerates.
6: Limestones containing miraculous microfossils.
7: The bed with the brachiopods.
8: Mount Garnitzen representing a Carboniferous
sand pit.
9: Mount Auernig in the Sea, testimony of
marine life.
10: Imprints of fossil plants from Mount Corona
as a memory.
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Exhibitions and Informations: Visitor Center Dellach im Gailtal,
A-9635 Dellach im Gailtal, 65
ABENTEUER ERDGESCHICHTE
Maps: Austrian map 1:50 000, sheet 198 Weißbriach (BEV-Vienna),
Geological map of Austria, sheet 198 Weißbriach (GBA-Vienna)
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