Rhine River Rift Valley

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.

Rhine river rift valley. This map was created by a user. 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. Chur rhine valley or grisonian rhine valley. 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.

Particular valleys of the rhine or any of its sections. Oberrheinische tiefebene oberrheinisches tiefland or oberrheingraben french. Rheintal is the valley or any section of it of the river rhine in europe. 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.

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Churer rheintal or sometimes bündner rheintal between reichenau and sargans east switzerland. 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. The black forest reaches its greatest elevation at mount feld feldberg. The river rhine and its tributaries represent one of the largest drainage systems in europe.

Below mainz at bingen germany the rhine leaves the rift valley and flows for c 80 mi 130 km across the rhenish slate mts. By the time of the miocene a river system had developed in the upper rhine graben that continued. The rhine graben formed synchronously with the alpine collision and has been called an. Central strip to form the rhine rift valley which extends 185 miles 300 km in length.

4 898 feet 1 493 metres in the south and declines northward beneath secondary sediments before rising to the smaller oden forest.