Geological Map of the Federal Republic of Germany 1:200,000 (GÜK200) — CC 8726 Kempten

Blatt Kempten (Allgäu) shows an excerpt of the Bavarian-Austrian Alps and their foreland. The subalpine Molasse Basin dominates the northern half of the map leaf. A distinction can be made between foreland molasses and wrinkle molasses. The not to weakly folded tertiary layers of the foreland molasses were included in the deformation on the edge of the Alps and strongly folded (fold molasses). The tertiary sediment filling of the molasse basin is superimposed extensively by quaternary top layers (mainly glacial deposits such as low terrace and high terrace blocks or moraine trains). The southern map section covers the Allgäu Alps, Lechtal Alps and Bavarian Alps as well as the Wetterstein Mountains. The following alpine units are recorded in the leaf section: the central crystalline south of the Inn Valley (Ötztal crystalline with variscially metamorphised gneiss), the Limestone Alps (Ostalpine with dolomite and limestone of the Triassic and the Jurassic), the Flysch Zone (Creed Age sand, limestone and marlstones) and the Helvetikum Zone (Creide Age limestone and clay gel stones). The geological diversity corresponds to an extensive legend with almost 100 units, the scale of which ranges from the paleozoic crystalline in the Alps to the Cenozoic deposits of the Molasse Basin. A tectonic overview map also illustrates all geological large units of the map sheet. A geological section provides insights into the structure of the subsurface. The north-south intersection ranges from Memmingen to Kempten, through the high bird of the Allgäu Alps to the weather peak of the Lechtal Alps. The profile illustrates the current ideas about the construction of the Alps and their foreland.