The stratification and cyclicity of the Dachstein Limestone in Lofer, Leogang and Steinernes Meer (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria)

✍ Scribed by W. Schwarzacher

• Book ID: 104092340
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 912 KB
• Volume: 181
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0037-0738
• DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.07.001

✦ Synopsis

The Dachstein Limestone of the Northern Calcareous Alps contains massive limestone beds, capped by dolomitic horizons. Groups of beds form bundles or stratification cycles and spectral analysis gives evidence of at least 3 orders of cycle frequencies. The regularity in the repetition of the limestones and dolomites was first pointed out by [Sander, B.,