page_title: Starzel (Neckar)
section_title: Geology and geomorphology
hierarchical_section_title: Starzel (Neckar) / Geology and geomorphology
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Das in ihrem Oberlauf "Killertal" genannte Tal der Starzel im Zollernalbkreis. Von vorne die Dörfer Killer, Starzeln und Hausen im Tal, alles Stadtteile von Burladingen. Die bewaldete Kuppe im Vordergrund ist das Naturschutzgebiet Bürgle.
context_page_description: Starzel is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Neckar west of Rottenburg am Neckar.
context_section_description: near Hechingen-Stein with border outcrop between Jura and Keuper]
  From the White Jurassic to the Muschelkalk the Starzel passes through all layers of the Jurassic and about two thirds of the Triassic. Its valley was formed by retrograde Erosion, in that the stream from the northwest cut deeper and deeper into the strata of the Swabian Alb and its foreland. The valley of the Starzel river intervenes eleven kilometres into the plateau of the Swabian Alb and is bordered in the west by the 957 high Raichberg and in the east by the up to 840 meter high hayfield. It begins with the source area of the Starzel and its tributaries at the watershed between the river system of the Rhine and that of the Danube.
  A special feature are the so-called waterfall layers, a hard sandstone, which is bedded over leafy shale clays.
  Between Jungingen and Schlatt the Starzel has formed an eight meter high waterfall, the Junginger Gieß. For long stretches it moves in a near-natural stream bed. Between Jungingen and Hechingen it has deepened like a canyon.
caption: The valley of the Starzel, called "Killertal" in its upper course (view up the valley). From the front the villages Killer, Starzeln and Hausen im Killertal, all districts of Burladingen.
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