Rhine River Rift Valley

Rheintal is the valley or any section of it of the river rhine in europe.

Rhine river rift valley.

Chur rhine valley or grisonian rhine valley. Oberrheinische tiefebene oberrheinisches tiefland or oberrheingraben french. The rhine graben formed synchronously with the alpine collision and has been called an. Gallen rhine valley also.

Central strip to form the rhine rift valley which extends 185 miles 300 km in length. Other articles where rhine rift valley is discussed. The main elements of this rift are the upper rhine graben in southwest germany and eastern france and the lower rhine embayment in northwest germany and the southeastern netherlands. The river rhine and its tributaries represent one of the largest drainage systems in europe.

By the time of the miocene a river system had developed in the upper rhine graben that continued. The black forest reaches its greatest elevation at mount feld feldberg. Its southern section straddles the border between. Rhine river river and waterway of western europe culturally and historically one of the great rivers of the continent and among the most important arteries of industrial transport in the world.

Vallée du rhin is a major rift about 350 kilometre long 220 mi and on average 50 kilometre wide 31 mi between basel in the south and the cities of frankfurt wiesbaden in the north. In a steep gorge famous for its scenery and wines with castles surviving from times when tolls were levied on the river s traffic and landmarks such as the lorelei and the drachenfels. Learn how to create your own. It flows from two small headways in the alps of east central switzerland north and west to the north sea into which it drains through the netherlands.

Below mainz at bingen germany the rhine leaves the rift valley and flows for c 80 mi 130 km across the rhenish slate mts. Particular valleys of the rhine or any of its sections. 4 898 feet 1 493 metres in the south and declines northward beneath secondary sediments before rising to the smaller oden forest. Churer rheintal or sometimes bündner rheintal between reichenau and sargans east switzerland.

Rhine graben the rift valley which contains the river rhine and which lies between the ardennes the vosges and the black forest the uplift occurred in the late mesozoic with rifting in the mid eocene and production of alkaline magmas in the oligocene in places 3 km of sediment have been deposited.