Prüm Syncline

The Prüm Syncline, Prüm Limestone Basin (German: Prümer Kalkmulde) or Prüm Basin (Prümer Mulde) is a landscape unit of the southern Limestone Eifel in Germany, which in turn is part of the Eifel mountain range.

[3][4] Geologically it contains dolomite formed from the fringing reefs or barrier reefs of the Devonian[5][6] on the edge of the Rheno-Hercynian Basin[6] mixed with rocks of other earth-historical periods.

[3] It is named after the largest settlement in the region, the town of Prüm, and the River Prüm, whose right bank running from northeast to southwest marks the western boundary of the basin.

In the southwest the basin runs from Schönecken with the exposed rock formations of the Schönecker, Switzerland in the direction of Daleiden.

The region lies at an average height of 500 to 550 metres above sea level.

The limestone basins of the Eifel on the line between the Lower Rhine Bay in the north and the Trier Bay in the south.