!!!Gurktaler Alpen

Gurktal Alps, geologically part of the central Alps with complex 
make-up of crystalline schists and limestone layers, between the upper 
part of the River Mur/Mura and the River Gurk in the Styrian  Eisenhut 
highest peak 2,441 m; high to low mountain range - made up of old 
schists - on the northern border of Carinthia, facing upper Styria and 
the Lungau region in the province of Salzburg. Their boundaries are 
marked by the Katschberg Pass in the west and the Neumarkter Sattel 
Pass in the east; the eastern part is divided into two ranges by the 
Metnitztal valley. The mountains in the Gurktal Alps generally have 
wooded slopes, grassy, broad ridges and flat, dome-shaped mountain 
tops; only the highest elevations show more rugged features. There are 
small lakes in some scattered old cirques. The transit road over the  
Turracher Hoehe Pass (1,783 m) is a major link between Carinthia 
(upper Gurk Valley) and Styria (upper Mur Valley). In the south-west 
the Gurktal Alps merge into the  Nock Area, in the north-east 
they are referred to as Metnitz Alps. Agriculture and forestry, skiing 
and hiking area.


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