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18-709: The valley in the Central Eastern Alps forms the northeasternmost part of South Tyrol close to the Austrian border, separating the Zillertal Alps in the north and west from the Hohe Tauern range ( Rieserferner Group ) in the south and east. The municipalities in the valley are Gais , Sand in Taufers , Ahrntal , and Prettau , the northernmost comune of Italy. The municipality of Mühlwald

36-852: Is a distinct geologic fault in Southern Europe , running S-shaped about 1,000 km (621 mi) from the Tyrrhenian Sea through the whole Southern Alps as far as Hungary . It forms the division between the Adriatic plate and the Eurasian plate . Within the Eastern Alps , the line marks the border between the Central Eastern Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps . In the Western Alps it forms

54-723: Is congruent with a northwestern side valley of the Tauferer Ahrntal including the Neves Reservoir. In the southeast, the Reinbach stream joins the Ahr near Sand in Taufers; the area around the village of Rein in Taufers is part of the Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park nature reserve. The valley is accessible by the state highway that runs from Bruneck northwards to Gais and Sand in Taufers where

72-525: Is the cause for the earthquake zone between Vienna and Friuli . The last destructive earthquake happened in Friuli in 1976. The uplift caused violent erosion of the young orogen, which led to the formation of the Hohe Tauern window . At several regions a heavy uplift of the Central Alps by some kilometers took place, and also a shift of more than 50 km. From east to west, the course of

90-761: The Liechtenstein shore of the Rhine in the west as far as to the lower promontories east of the river Mur including the Hochwechsel in Austrian Styria . The valleys of the rivers Inn , Salzach and Enns mark their northern boundary, the Drau river (roughly corresponding to the Periadriatic Seam ) their southern border. In the proposed SOIUSA system, the "Central-eastern Alps" include

108-718: The Northern Limestone Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps , from which they differ in geological composition. The term "Central Eastern Alps" may also be used more broadly to refer to a larger area of the Eastern Alps , mainly located in Austria , extending from the foot of the Bergamasque Alps at Lake Como and the Bernina Range in the Graubünden canton of eastern Switzerland along

126-831: The Pannonian Basin . This fracture zone exhibits active volcanism (e.g. in the Styrian thermal region). The Central Eastern Alps also comprise the following ranges of the West Eastern Alps according to AVE classification, which geologically belong to the Southern Alps and are also subsumed under the Western Limestone Alps division.: The Ortler Alps as well as the Sobretta-Gavia Group are also sometimes classified with

144-892: The Rhaetian Alps , of which the Bernina Range includes the 4,049-meter Piz Bernina in Switzerland, the easternmost 4,000-meter peak of the Alps. In the AVE system, however, the full list of mountain groups in the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps includes the Bernina and neighboring ranges within the Western Limestone Alps, not the Central Eastern Alps as the Alpine Club defines them. In Austria,

162-573: The main chain of the Eastern Alps in Austria and the adjacent regions of Switzerland , Liechtenstein , Italy and Slovenia . South of them is the Southern Limestone Alps . The term "Central Alps" is very common in the Geography of Austria as one of the seven major landscape regions of the country. "Central Eastern Alps" is usually used in connection with the Alpine Club classification of

180-588: The Central Alps – unlike the case in the Western Alps. The aforementioned granite intruded near the fracture zone of the Periadriatic Seam . The Western Alps do not have this division into the Northern Limestone Alps , Central Alps and Southern Limestone Alps . The Austroalpine submerges itself at the eastern edge of the Alps under the Tertiary sediments of the Alpine Foreland in the east and

198-756: The Central Alps, because they lie north of the geological fault of the Periadriatic Seam; in a general regional geographic sense, however, they are seen as part of the Southern Limestone Alps , because they are found south of the longitudinal trough Veltlin (Adda)– Vintschgau (Etsch). Also in terms of rock, the Ortler main crest is part of the Southern Limestone Alps. [REDACTED] Media related to Central Eastern Alps at Wikimedia Commons Periadriatic Seam [REDACTED] Alps portal The Periadriatic Seam (or fault)

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216-538: The Eastern Alps ( Alpenvereinseinteilung , AVE). The Central Alps form the eastern part of the Alpine divide , its central chain of mountains, as well as those ranges that extend or accompany it to the north and south. The highest mountain in the Austrian Central Alps is Grossglockner at 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The Central Alps have the highest peaks of the Eastern Alps, and are located between

234-981: The Eastern Alps are divided into the Northern Alps , the Greywacke zone , the Central Alps and the Southern Alps . The latter lie partly in South Carinthia , but mainly in Northeast Italy . The Central and Northern Alps are separated by the Northern Longitudinal Trough ( nördliche Längstalfurche ), the line Klostertal – Arlberg – Inn Valley– Salzach Valley as far as Lake Zell – Wagrain Heights–Upper Enns Valley– Schober Pass – Mürz Valley Alps– Semmering –southern Vienna Basin . The Central Alps and Southern Alps are separated from one another by

252-666: The Southern Longitudinal Valley ( südlichen Längstalzug ) Puster Valley ( Rienz Valle– Toblach Field–upper Drava ( Drau ) Valley)–Drava Valley– Klagenfurt Basin– Meža ( Mieß ), or the Periadriatic Seam, which is not entirely identical with the Southern Longitudinal Trough. The range has the highest summits in the Eastern Alps and is the most glaciated . In the transition zone between the East and West Alps, its peaks clearly dominate

270-463: The division between the southern Apulian foreland and the central crystalline zones of the Alps. Continental collision is still going on, with the Apulian and Eurasian plates still converging . The central zones of the Alps are rising too, causing vertical slip along the fault . The result is the set of major fault zones collectively named Periadriatic Seam. Movement along the Periadriatic Seam

288-727: The entry into the Ahr ravine is marked by Taufers Castle. From here the valley stretches northeastwards up the river course to Prettau and the Birnlücke Pass. The former Taufers Railway connection from Bruneck to Sand in Taufers was discontinued in 1957. [REDACTED] Media related to Tauferer Ahrntal at Wikimedia Commons 46°55′N 11°57′E  /  46.917°N 11.950°E  / 46.917; 11.950 Central Eastern Alps The Central Eastern Alps (German: Zentralalpen or Zentrale Ostalpen ), also referred to as Austrian Central Alps (German: Österreichische Zentralalpen ) or just Central Alps , comprise

306-603: The region to the west ( Piz d'Err , Piz Roseg ). On the perimeter, however, there are also less high, often less rugged mountain chains, like the Gurktal Alps and the eastern foothills. The Eastern Alps is separated from the Western Alps by a line from Lake Constance to Lake Como along the Alpine Rhine valley and via the Splügen Pass . The Central Alps consist mainly of the gneiss and slate rocks of

324-504: The various Austroalpine nappes (Lower and Upper Austroalpine), with the exception of the Hohe Tauern and Engadine windows , where they are composed mostly of Jurassic rock and limestones and, locally, ( Bergell and Rieserferner ) also of granite . The Austroalpine nappes are thrusted over the Penninic nappe stack . Massifs of autochthonous , crystalline rock , which hardly moved at all during Alpine folding , do not occur in

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