The Northern Harz Boundary Fault ( German : Harznordrandstörung or Harznordrandverwerfung ) is a geological fault where the Harz Block , which consists of rocks formed during the Palaeozoic Era and folded in the course of Hercynian mountain building , borders on the Subhercynian Basin or Harz Foreland . The fault is also known in English as the Harz North Rim Fault or Harznordrand Thrust (Fault).
10-1219: Butterberg is the name of several mountains and hills: in Germany: Butterberg (Bad Harzburg) (308 m), in the Harz, near Bad Harzburg, Goslar district, Lower Saxony Butterberg (Ilfeld) (539 m), in the Harz, near Ilfeld, Nordhausen district, Thuringia Butterberg (Ilsenburg) (279 m), in the Harz, near Ilsenburg, Harz district, Saxony-Anhalt Butterberg (Elmshorn) , near Elmshorn , Pinneberg district, Schleswig-Holstein Butterberg (Groß Pankow) , Groß Pankow (Prignitz) , Prignitz district, Brandenburg Butterberg (Passee) , near Passee , Nordwestmecklenburg district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Butterberg (Bischofswerda) (385 m), near Bischofswerda , Bautzen district, Saxony Butterberg (Schmölln-Putzkau) (388 m), near Tröbigau , Bautzen district, Saxony Butterberg (Waltersdorf) , near Waltersdorf , Görlitz district, Saxony in Poland: Butterberg (Elbing Heights) , in
20-646: A period of about 2 million years from the middle of the Santonian age to the lower Campanian . The completion of uplift is shown by the fact that the rocks of the Upper Cretaceous lie at a much shallower angle than those of the Lower Cretaceous, and that, in some places, they overlap discordantly . The uplift is still going on today. Along the western part of the fault, the Harz was lifted by at least 5 to 7 km, which can be estimated from
30-517: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Butterberg (Bad Harzburg) The Butterberg is an elongated hill northeast of the spa town of Bad Harzburg in Goslar district , in the German state of Lower Saxony . Its long crest, which since 1952 is protected as a nature reserve , reaches a height of 308 m above NN . Part of
40-782: The Elbing Heights , Woiwodschaft Ermland-Masuren Villages: the German name for the Czech village of Máselnik in the borough of Dubá [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Butterberg&oldid=937022578 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
50-642: The Jurassic are steeply inclined. Near Blankenburg and Ballenstedt there are rocks lying at steep angles from the Cretaceous , which form the so-called Devil's Wall or Teufelsmauer . They include, inter alia , rocks of Heidelberg Sandstone, a silicified quartz sandstone. Springs rise along the entire fault system, both those with low quantities of minerals as well as mineral water springs. The mineral waters are used, for example, in Bad Harzburg, by
60-698: The Harz mountains and over the North German Plain . The name Butter is associated with Low German buten (i.e. "outside", c.f. Buten and binnen ). These are therefore hills lying outside or on the edge of given places. There are many other "Butterberg" hills in German-speaking regions. Northern Harz Boundary Fault The northern edge of the Harz is oriented in a Hercynian (WNW-ESE) direction and runs from Neuekrug- Hahausen via Langelsheim , Goslar , Bad Harzburg , Ilsenburg , Wernigerode , Blankenburg , Thale and Gernrode to
70-834: The Mesozoic era. The basin was formed by a deformation or bulging of the Moho . In the Cretaceous the basin was squeezed by Alpine orogeny which also uplifted the Harz Block. The Northern Harz Boundary Fault was activated in the Early Cretaceous and the Harz was uplifted along the line of the fault . The Harz Block was thrust over the Mesozoic strata of the Subhercynian Basin, steeply tilting its Mesozoic strata. The most intensive phase of uplift occurred in
80-742: The area of Ballenstedt . The Northern Harz Boundary Fault forms the southern border of the Northeast German Basin, a part of the Central European Basin. The Subhercynian Basin, also known as the Harz Foreland, is a small sub-basin of the Northeast German Basin. This intracontinental basin that has been subsided since the Permian period was formed from the Hercynian foreland basins and accumulated sediments of
90-744: The northern Harz foothills, the hill is located north of the Harz Nature Park at the rim of the Harz National Park . The Butterberg is part of the Harz - Brunswick Land - Eastphalia National Geopark ; its steeply inclined strata belong to the Northern Harz Boundary Fault . In the west, the hill is bounded by the Radau river and the parallel Bundesstraße 4 highway. The mountain-ridge path offers scenic views to
100-524: The thickness of the Mesozoic rocks deposited in the Harz Foreland and eroded Paleozoic rocks. The Harz was partly thrust over the layers of Mesozoic rock to the north. Here, the Mesozoic strata were tilted steeply (70-80 degrees) or even overturned. A good example is at the Langenberg Quarry, but there are also many other outcrops that show the steeply sloping strata. In these strata, rocks of
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