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Field Trips
General information
Field trips begin and end in front of the LMU Geology institute (Luisenstr. 37, Munich) unless otherwise indicated. All trips
include transportation during the trip.
Several trips that involve significant amounts of hiking are rated for difficulty. Trips that involve only touring of mines, pits,
quarries, and roadside stops are not rated for difficulty, but they may still require boots or rubber boots. The number and type of
“boots” gives a quick overview, but please read the more detailed information for each trip:
AV*: Bergwanderung leicht / easy mountain hike
USA class1
DAV*: Bergwanderung mittelschwer / moderate mountain hike
USA class 2
DAV*: Bergtour / Mountaineering
USA class 3
No hiking involved
(visits to labs)
Muddy trip!
Rubber boots or at least hiking boots required.
*DAV = Deutscher Alpenverein / German Alpine Club
Registration for field trips closed June 30, 2011. This deadline may be extended for individual trips that are not yet full, so please
check back even after the deadline if you are interested in joining a field trip.
The field trip fee is non-refundable with the exception of trip cancellation by the organizers. Field trip registration fees will be
debited to your credit card as soon as the trip has reached the minimum number of participants, so you might not see a charge
right away on your card statement.
Pre-Conference Field Trips (August 21 to September 4)
Field Trip E1
Geology along the TRANSALP Line, Part 1: Tauern Window
Departure: Sunday, August 21, 8:00, LMU Geology building, main entrance, Luisenstr. 37, Munich
Return: Saturday, August 27, ~ 18:00, LMU Geology building, main entrance, Luisenstr. 37, Munich
Cost: 446 €; maximum: 25 participants.
AWG members will pay a reduced fee (346 €).
Included: lodging, breakfast, gondolas
Not Included: lunch, dinner, drinks, sleeping bag or bag liner (a sleeping-bag liner is mandatory in the mountain huts)
Difficulty: DAV: Bergtour / Mountaineering
USA National Parks Rating: Strenuous.
Whole day walks in rugged and steep Alpine terrain and ascents/descents of 800 m elevation difference
(~ 2500 feet) are included. Peak altitudes reach 2750 m (9000 feet).
Overnight stays up to 2500 m (8200 feet).
Leaders: Bernd Lammerer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Jane Selverstone, University of New Mexico
Gerhard Franz, Technical University Berlin
Description:
The TRANSALP project (1998 -2001) included various geological and geophysical surveys along a straight transect through the
Alps between Munich and Venice. The three excursions run roughly along this line and cover the Eastern Alps where they are
best studied. The first excursion leads into the very center of the Eastern Alps — the Tauern Window. Here, the metamorphosed
basement and cover rocks of the European plate are exposed beneath the nappes of the Alpine Tethys Ocean (Penninic nappes)
and the basal parts of the Adriatic plate (Austroalpine nappes).
The excursion will provide insight into the intrusive and metamorphic development of the European plate its complex tectonic
structures of nappe stacking, folding, refolding, and backfolding, and also its palaeo-geographic history. The exhumation history
will be discussed, including the enigmatic east — west extension that facilitated its internal stacking and uplift.
26 Fragile earth: geological Processes from global to local Scales