page_title: Tennen Mountains
section_title: Geology
hierarchical_section_title: Tennen Mountains / Geology
caption_attribution_description: English: Mountain range Tennen Mountains (German: Tennengebirge), seen from South-West. In the center its highest peak Raucheck (2.430 m). Viewpoint Hochkoenig east side. Below the valley of the river Salzach with the small town Werfen.
context_page_description: The Tennen Mountains is a small, but rugged, mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, which lies in front of the Eastern Alps for its entire length. It is a very heavily karstified high plateau, about 60 km² in area, with many caves. The range is located in Austria in the district of Salzburg near Bischofshofen.
  Some 37 square kilometres of the Tennen plateau are above the 2,000 metre line and that part of the range within the state of Salzburg was turned into a nature reserve in 1982.
context_section_description: The Tennen is a heavily karstified massif, composed mainly of Dachstein limestone lying on a foundation of Ramsau dolomite.
  Its southern foothills, along the line Lungötz–Werfenweng–Werfen, belong to an imbricate zone (Schuppenzone).  This zone, made of Werfen Formation from the Lower Triassic and middle triadic dolomites (Anisian, Ladinian), is called the Werfen-St.-Martin Schuppen Zone.
caption: The Tennen Mountains from the southwest, on the right the hill zone of Werfen-St.-Martin Schuppen Zone
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