Prestreljenik Window / Prestreljenisko okno EarthCache
Prestreljenik Window / Prestreljenisko okno
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The Prestreljenik window is one of the Julian Alps natural rock
windows. You can reach it by a secured path ascending from south
into it. You can continue to the summit of Prestreljenik or Visoki
Kanin.
Slovensky
Prestreljenik, 2498 m visoko goro v Kaninskem pogorju je lahko
prepoznati po naravnem oknu. Nastalo je s preperevanjem skalnega
oboka.
Prestreljenik and its Window
The window and name of the Mountain are connected. The name of this
mountain is sort of funny and it means "the shooted through". This
is due to a big rock window in the west ridge of a mountain.
Several legends describing the formation of the window have been
preserved. Here are two of them:
- Devil, who in a dense fog and with full speed bumped into the
mountain, creating with his horns a big hole in it.
- Once upon a time, God punished the world by flooding it. Only
Noah was saved; he was floating together with the animals. After a
long time God remembered Noah and stopped the rain so the waters
started to subside. That is when the mountain of Prestreljenik
peeked out of the water, and Noah was in a difficult position
because he did not know where to tie his boat. God saw Noah’s
distress, so He placed his index finger on the left and his thumb
on the right and pressed his two fingers together. That is how He
made the window. Noah took a rope from the boat, put it through the
hole and happily tied up his vessel.
Geological history
The Julian Alps are located in NW Slovenia and structurally
belong to the Julian Nappe where the Southern Alps intersect with
the Dinarides. In the Jurassic, the area was a part of the southern
Tethyan continental margin and experienced extensional faulting and
differential subsidence during rifting of the future margin. The
Mesozoic succession in the Julian Alps is characterized by a thick
pile of Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic platform limestones of the
Julian Carbonate Platform, unconformably overlain by Bajocian to
Tithonian strongly condensed limestones of the Prehodavci Formation
of the Julian High. The Prehodavci Formation is up to 15 m thick,
consists of Rosso Ammonitico type limestone and is subdivided into
three members. The Lower Member consists of a condensed red,
well-bedded bioclastic limestone with Fe–Mn nodules, passing
into light-grey, faintly nodular limestone. The Middle Member
occurs discontinuously and consists of thin-bedded micritic
limestone. The Upper Member unconformably overlies the Lower or
Middle Members. It is represented by red nodular limestone, and by
red-marly limestone with abundant Saccocoma sp. The Prehodavci
Formation unconformably overlies the Upper Triassic to Lower
Jurassic platform limestone of the Julian Carbonate Platform; the
contact is marked by a very irregular unconformity. It is overlain
by the upper Tithonian pelagic Biancone (Maiolica) limestone. The
sedimentary evolution of the Julian High is similar to that of
Trento Plateau in the west and records: (1) emergence and
karstification of part of the Julian Carbonate Platform in the
Pliensbachian, or alternatively drowning of the platform and
development of the surface by sea-floor dissolution; (2)
accelerated subsidence and drowning in the Bajocian, and onset of
the condensed pelagic sedimentation (Prehodavci Formation) on the
Julian High; (3) beginning of sedimentation of the Biancone
limestone in the late Tithonian.
How to obtain the log-permission
- Reach the Prestreljenik window with the secured path
- Guess the approx. size of the window when you are standing in
it (there is fantastic view to Italian side).
- Is Prestreljenik the highest summit in Kanin subgroup of Julian
Alps? If yes note the height, if not note the name and the height
of the highest.
- Send the answers to the questions to my account, and you will
get the permission to log if everything is correct.
- Add a photo of yourself with your GPS and the Prestreljenik
window to your log after you get the permission
More information
You can shorten part of the way with the cable-car from Bovec
(Slovenia) or with the other one from Sella Nevea (Italy).
Slovensky
Prestreljenik, 2498 m visoko goro v Kaninskem pogorju je lahko
prepoznati po naravnem oknu. Nastalo je s preperevanjem skalnega
oboka. V zvezi z nastankom okna se je ohranilo vec legend. Pa
poglejmo eno:
"Nekoc je Bog kaznoval svet s tem, da ga je potopil, le Noe se je
rešil; v družbi živali je plaval po vrhu. Po
dolgem casu se je Bog spomnil na Noeta in je ustavil dež, da
so se vode zacele spušcati. Tako se je iz vode prikazal tudi
Prestreljenik, Noe pa je bil v škripcih, ker ni vedel, kam
naj priveže svojo barko. Bog je opazil zadrego, zato je
kazalec postavil na levo, palec pa na desno in stisnil. Tako je
bilo narejeno okno. Noe pa je potegnil z barke vrv, to vtaknil
skozi luknjo in tako zadovoljno pripel svoje plovilo."
Dostop: od D postaje kaninske žicnice na levo, do okna pridemo
v dobre pol ure. V okolici si lahko ogledate ucno pot
Prestreljeniški podi - Kanin.
Kako pridobiti dovoljenje za vpis?
- Obišcite Prestreljenikovo okno
- Ocenite približno višino okna, ko stojite v njem
(razgled na italijansko stran je fantasticen).
- Ali je Prestreljenik najvišji vrh v kaninski podskupini
Julijskih Alp? Ce je odgovor da, navedite njegovo višino, ce
je odgovor ne, navedite ime in višino najvišjega
vrha.
- Odgovore na vprašanja pošljite preko mojega
profila in ce so pravilni, boste dobili dovoljenje za vpis.
- Ko prejmete dovoljenje, k svojemu vpisu dodajte svojo sliko z
GPSom pri Prestreljenikovem oknu.
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