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Allgäuer Alpen | Gottesacker

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This karstified valley at the Austrian-German border, the name of which literally means "God's field", represents a syncline in massive Cretaceous limestone of the Helvetic zone. Representing the sediments once deposited at the N shelf of the Tethys ocean, this system is more commonly exposed in Switzerland.

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on Friday 11 August 2023 by Martin Mergili
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