Subcarpathia

The Carpathian foreland is located on the outer side of the Carpathian arc. Share of the Carpathian foreland, the countries Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania. Is geologically and geographically at least the northern (outer) Vienna Basin, part of the Alpine and Carpathian foreland, it has an intermediate position between the co- created foreshore areas of the mountains. The geologically similar young subsidence area inside the Carpathian arch, the Pannonian Plain, the large parts of Hungary and Romania occupies, it is not called Subcarpathian.

Geography

The Carpathian Mountains in Austria comprises the western wine district up to the cliff zone. It is a flat to mittelgebirgiges hill country with mighty Lössdecken. North of the Danube borders the Subcarpathian a zone of sandstone mountains (example: Bisamberg ) as a continuation of the Flysch Zone of the Eastern Alps. South offshore limestone cliffs draw against North northeast and already belong to the Carpathian Mountains, the Leiser Berge (491 m), the Staatzer cliff and the Falkensteiner mountains ( clip Zone / Waschberg zone). Slovakia has only in externals Vienna Basin a share in the Carpathian foothills.

The Karpatenvortiefe in the Czech Republic is situated in the foothills of the White Carpathians in Moravia and includes, among other things, the Palava ( Pavlov hills ) in the district Břeclav. In Poland, the foothills of the Carpathian małopolskie of the administrative districts of the WojewĂłdztwo ( Lesser Poland Voivodeship ) and the WojewĂłdztwo podkarpackie ( Subcarpathian Voivodeship ) is taken. The Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine is for the most part in the historical landscape of Galicia, which is now occupied by the Chernivtsi oblasts, Ivano- Frankivsk and Lviv. To the west it merges into the Dniester level.

In Romania, the Carpathian foothills accompanies the change of direction of the Carpathians. East of the Eastern Carpathians it is in the area of the highlands of Moldova into the Bukovina and Moldavia region, in the Southern Carpathians, the foreshore is part of the Wallachian Plain.

Geology

The Carpathians were a sea during the Tertiary. In the underground of the Lower Carpathians region are the corresponding tertiary marine deposits. Because of their position at the Carpathian Mountains and their history, the rocks of the Lower Carpathians region can be described as molasses. In Austria and the Vienna Basin, the Molasse essentially Miocene age in the Czech Republic and Poland rocks from the upper Miocene to the Ukraine and the Romanian Eastern Carpathians finally powerful Pliocene is developed. In contrast to the Alpine foothills in coastal regions, no deposits can be detected in the layers of the Carpathians region, along the entire Carpathian remains marin the layer sequence.

The rocks of the Lower Carpathians region are as in the Alpine foothills marls, limestones, shales and sandstones exist that can achieve a large total thickness. Schlier and Tegel in Austria can be powerful up to 1500 m, in the foothills of the Eastern and Southern Carpathians total of 10,000 m can be achieved.

During the orogeny in the late Tertiary ( Miocene to Pliocene end ) the deposited in a deeper sea Carpathian flysch were far beyond advanced over the deposits of the Carpathians region. Deep drilling at Karwin in Poland have demonstrated a thrust fault width of 20 km.

Mineral Resources

A special feature of the eastern Polish, Ukrainian and Romanian Carpathian foreland are thick salt deposits that are object of intensive mining operations. In the Polish Wieliczka a Saline museum. Especially in Romania it came to the formation of salt domes.

Another important natural resource of the Carpathians region 's oil. South of the Polish Krosno are the oldest underground funding agencies in the world. Other major oil-producing locations are in the western Ukrainian cities Boryslaw and Kolomyja and in the environment of the Romanian city of Ploiesti.

Climate

There is in Western part lying landscapes before Pannonian climate. The Carpathian Mountains on the eastern slope of the Ukrainian lands is clearly influenced by continental climate.

Flora and Fauna

Pannonisches plant cover; mixed deciduous forests