This mostly brick building in Munich is the New Justice Building or court house (not to be confused with the Justice Palace next door to the left in this image). It's on Prielmayer Strasse between the train station and the Karlsplatz. The building's large foundation stones are a coarse conglomerate (see the two images below). Munich lies on the plain of sediments shed off the Alps to the north, and these conglomerates represent gravels that were probably deposited by streams flowing north. The mass of sediment shed off the Alps after their uplift and deposited across the plain to the north is known to geologists as "molasse"; these conglomerates were part of that molasse. |