page_title: Wetterstein Formation
hierarchical_section_title: Wetterstein Formation
caption_attribution_description: Slovenčina: Viditeľná nekonformita - Transgresia sedimentov Centrálnokarpatského paleogénu, konkrétne borovského súvrstvia (sivožlté pieskovce a zlepence), na triasové Wettersteinské vápence silicika. Markušovce, okres Spišská Nová Ves. Geologické kladivo je 28cm dlhé. English: Transgression of the Paleogene sediments of Borové Formation (gray sandstones and conglomerates) of the Inner Carpathian Paleogene Basin on the Triassic Wetterstein Limestones of Silica superunit, Markušovce (Spišská Nová Ves District), Slovakia, Western Carpathians. Geological hammer is 28cm long.
context_page_description: The Wetterstein Formation is a regional geologic formation of the Northern Limestone Alps and Western Carpathians extending from southern Bavaria, Germany in the west, through northern Austria to northern Hungary and western Slovakia in the east. The formation dates back to the Ladinian to Carnian stages of the Late Triassic. The formation is named after the Wetterstein Mountains in southern Germany and northwestern Austria. The center of its distribution, however, is in the Karwendel Mountains. It occurs in the Northern and Southern Limestone Alps and in the Western Carpathians.
  The formation is composed of mostly reefal limestones and dolomites, the latter the result of widespread diagenesis. In many areas there is a frequent alternation of limestone and dolomite facies. Local variants to indicate the Wetterstein Formation include German: Wettersteinkalk, Wettersteindolomit and combinations thereof. The Wetterstein Formation reaches a maximum thickness of 1,000 metres with major regional thickness variations. It belongs to the tectonostratigraphical unit Austroalpine nappes.
context_section_description: The Wetterstein Formation is a regional geologic formation of the Northern Limestone Alps and Western Carpathians extending from southern Bavaria, Germany in the west, through northern Austria to northern Hungary and western Slovakia in the east. The formation dates back to the Ladinian to Carnian stages of the Late Triassic. The formation is named after the Wetterstein Mountains in southern Germany and northwestern Austria. The center of its distribution, however, is in the Karwendel Mountains. It occurs in the Northern and Southern Limestone Alps and in the Western Carpathians.
  The formation is composed of mostly reefal limestones and dolomites, the latter the result of widespread diagenesis. In many areas there is a frequent alternation of limestone and dolomite facies. Local variants to indicate the Wetterstein Formation include German: Wettersteinkalk (Wetterstein Limestone), Wettersteindolomit ("Wetterstein Dolomite") and combinations thereof. The Wetterstein Formation reaches a maximum thickness of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) with major regional thickness variations. It belongs to the tectonostratigraphical unit Austroalpine nappes. The carbonate rock of the formation is from the Middle Triassic epoch of the Ladinian stage, comparable to the German stage in which Muschelkalk rock strata were formed.
  The formation has provided numerous fossils of corals, sponges, bivalves, gastropods and other marine groups indicative of a shallow marine carbonate platform environment deposited at the northern end of the Tethys Ocean.
caption: Transgression of the Paleogene sediments over the Wetterstein Limestone of the Silicic Superunit, Western Carpathians.
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