The Wildmoossee is an aperiodic mountain lake , 3 kilometres west of Seefeld in Tirol near the village of Wildmoos in the market borough of Telfs .
4-474: The lake lies in the area of the water-soluble main dolomite of the Seefeld Plateau at a height of 1,316 metres. As a result the ground underneath contains chasms that reach up to the bottom of the lake. About every four years, so much groundwater builds up as a result of precipitation and snow meltwater that it is forced upwards out of the chasms under pressure and emerges spring-like at
8-592: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Main dolomite Main Dolomite ( German : Hauptdolomit , Hungarian : Fődolomit , Italian : Dolomia Principale ) is a lithostratigraphic unit in the Alps of Europe. Formation was defined by K.W. Gümbel in 1857. Middle to Late Triassic sedimentary record in the Alpine realm is characterized by presence of various masses of dolomitic rock formations. In
12-734: The Northern Calcareous Alps the dolomitic mass of Ladinian - Norian age is divided by the Carnian sandstones and shales of Lunz Formation to the Ladinian - Carnian Wetterstein Dolomite and Norian Main Dolomite. The Main Dolomite reaches higher thickness than underlying dolomites in Alps, therefore it is considered as more important "Main". The formation is found in: It is primarily made of dolomite , ranging from 0 to 2,200 metres (0 to 7,218 ft) in thickness. Main Dolomite
16-504: The surface, filling the lake basin. The highest water levels are usually reached in May. In late autumn, the lake empties itself again. This cycle can change due to the variable level of water resulting from variations in precipitation. The same karst landscape related phenomenon occurs at the Lottensee lake, 1.5 kilometres to the southwest. This Tyrol location article is
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