the pieniny klippen belt emerges from beneath the neogene sediments of the vienna basin near podbranč in western slovakia and continues eastward to poland, where it bends and returns to slovakia in the area of pieniny. the klippen belt then continues to ukraine and ends in romania. in some places it is covered with younger deposits, for example in the podhale basin in poland, or in the vihorlat mountains in slovakia.