Geological field trips in Central Western Europe : Fragile Earth International Conference, Munich, September 2011

GSA FIELD GUIDE 22......Page 1 Geological Field Trips in Central Western Europe: Fragile Earth International Conference, Munich, September 2011......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 Preface......Page 6 The Geodetic Observatory Wettzell—A fundamental reference point......Page 8 KTB Deep Drilling Site and Czech-Bavarian Geopark— Two best practice examples of geoscience outreach......Page 14 Geo-education and geopark implementation in the Vulkaneifel European Geopark......Page 36 Sedimentary facies and paleontology of the Ottnangian Upper Marine Molasse and Upper Brackish Water Molasse of eastern Bavaria: A fi eld trip guide......Page 42 Rhenodanubian Flyschzone, Bavarian Alps......Page 58 Field trip to the Northern Alps between Munich and the Inn Valley......Page 82 Field trip to the Tauern Window region along the TRANSALP seismic profi le, Eastern Alps, Austria......Page 108 Glaciological and hydrometeorological long-term observation of glacier mass balance at Vernagtferner (Vernagt Glacier, Oetztal Alps, Austria)......Page 128 Back......Page 134 Blank Page......Page 5 The field trips described in this volume were organized in conjunction with the "Fragile Earth" international conference of 4-7 September 2011, in Munich, Germany. The conference was jointly organized by the Geological Society of America and the German Geological Societies (Geologische Vereinigung and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften), and it was hosted by the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Munich. This series of field trips examines the records and recording tools of geological processes, from plate motions, to deep crustal structure and deformation, to near-surface processes and interactions between the Earth's surface and climate. Three chapters focus on observatories and communicating geosciences to the public through geoparks, while four other papers loosely define a north-south geological cross-section through the eastern Alps of Germany and Austria and its foreland basin