!!!Salzburger Schieferalpen

Salzburg Schist Alps, also Dienten Mountains, term for southern lime 
stocks of the  Salzburg Limestone Alps and the region north of the 
River Salzach and Wagrain, characterised by roundish shapes, meadows 
and Alpine pastures ("grass mountains"). Highest mountain: 
Hundstein Mountain (2,117 m). In the north they are composed of  
Werfen Strata of the Lower Triassic Period, in the south of Palaeozoic 
schist of the greywacke zone; copper deposits in Mitterberg Valley and 
deposits of magnesite and graphite.


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