!!!Salzburger Kalkalpen

Salzburg Limestone Alps, part of the  Northern Limestone Alps, 
diversified landscape. Lofer and Leogang Mountains, Steinernes Meer 
Mountains, Hochkoenig Mountain (highest peak, alt. 2,941 m 
and, the only mountain of the Salzburg Limestone Alps featuring a 
glacier), the  Uebergossene Alm Glacier, Hagengebirge Mountains, 
Untersberg Mountain, Tennengebirge Mountains and the Berchtesgaden 
Alps (mainly belonging to Bavaria) are predominantly karstified lime 
stock with plateaux and precipices of trias rock (especially  
Dachstein Limestone). The lower Osterhorn Mountains ("Salzburg 
Forealps" (Salzburg Alpine Forelands)) are predominantly made of 
Jurassic rocks. The Salzburg Limestone Alps are rich in building raw 
materials (Untersberg and Adnet Limestone, Oberalm Strata) and in 
caves (Eisriesenwelt ("Giant Ice World")) in the Tennengebirge 
Mountains).


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