Fig. 2

Lithostratigraphic columns of the late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic cover of the Subpenninic nappes. a Western Tauern Window, b Eastern Tauern Window. The columns within the individual Fig. 2a, b are arranged according to the inferred palaeographical position going from NW (left) to SE (right). The stratigraphical logs were largely compiled from data by Alber (1976), Brandner et al. (2008), Exner (1982), Frisch (1975, 1980b), Frasl and Frank (1966), Höfer and Tichy (2005), Klebelsberg (1940), Kurz (2006), Kurz et al. (1998), Lammerer (1986), Lemoine (2003), Rockenschaub et al. (2003a), Thiele (1970), Veselá and Lammerer (2008), Veselá et al. (2008). Partly they are based on own observations. The lithologies are indicated with numbers, as follows: 1 granite gneiss; 2 Variscan basement; 3 Porphyrmaterialschiefer; 4 conglomerates; 5 Permo-Skythian quartzites; 6 limestones; 7 dolomites; 8 evaporites; 9 chloritoid schists; 10 Keuper quartzites; 11 Liassic black schists and sandstones; 12 Hochstegen Marble; 13 Kaserer Series in general; 14 dolomite breccias; 15 black phyllites; 16 slaty limestones; 17 Brennkogel quartzites; 18 calcschists. Capital letters indicate the geological age of the different formations, as follows: B Variscan basement; PC Upper Carboniferous to Permian; T Triassic; L Lower and Middle Jurassic; M Upper Jurassic; C Cretaceous (Brennkogel Formation and Kaserer Series). Wavy lines indicate the base Liassic and base Cretaceous unconformities, respectively