¬The¬ Dolomite Mountains : excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863 ; with a geological chapter and pictorial illustrations from original drawings on the spot
Page 582 of 600
Author:
Gilbert, Josiah ; Churchill, George C. / by Josiah Gilbert, and G. C. Churchill
Place:
London
Publisher:
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
Physical description:
XX, 576 S. : Ill., Kt.
Language:
Englisch
Subject heading:
g.Dolomiten ; f.Reisebericht 1861-1863
Location mark:
II A-4.101
Intern ID:
134614
massive of unbedded crystalline ‘ Schiern Dolomite ’ resting upon the Tuff, and rising up from its surface on all sides in perpendieular walk. Ahove these precipices, appears a narrow sloping ledge, forrned of Baibl beds, and upon this is planted a series of short escarpments, terminating in thè background in a multitude of truncated cones, with rocky winding gorges between tbem, li ned with débris, the whole formed of lower Lias Dolomite. The Guerdenazza has somewhat similar features, but on a rauch
larger scale, and it sends out long arms of precipice to the west and north-east The Baibl beds, by tbus interposing a stage between thè upper and lower tier of precipices, immensely enbance the scenic effeet of the whole mass. This kind of effeet may be said, perhaps, to culminate in Monte Nuvulau, a rauch smaller Massive, that dominates the ascent- of the pass from Santa Lucia, by Monte Gusella, to Cortina. Looking up at it from below, seated on the Tuff-land, it strikingly resembles, in its three
