200 Ma Limestone making impressive 160 m high vertical rock faces surrounding a 4 km long and over 1 km wide valley basin, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

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#Rhine #Waterfall, #Switzerland Europe's #largest waterfall: feeling the roar and vibration of water resulted from tectonic shift during the ice age

approximately located 25 kms south of the German border

15,000 years old waterfall
width 150 meters and
height 23 meters,
600 m³ of water plunge over the falls in the summer.

one of the most popular places to visit in Switzerland.

over one million visitors each year see this place and its surroundings

#Rheinfalls #Schaffhausen

This short clip was recorded using Samsung A41 Mobile on May 30, 2021.

A magnificent metamorphic foliation in a high-pressure and low-temperature blueschist facies metasedimentary rock, Sion Town, Canton of Valais, Switzerland

#Snow covered #Limestone, #PreAlps #Gastlosen #Mountain, #Fribourg Canton, #Switzerland
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#geology #geoscience #earthscience #rock #rockscience #photography #mobilephotography #nature #naturephotography #rockphotography #mountainphotography #gastlosenmountain #limestonemountain #limestonerock #switzerlandinpicture #switzerlandphotography #swiss #swissgeology #hike #hiking #weekendhiking #weekendphotography #hikingphotography

Mountain Niesen, on Lake Thun Spiez, Bern Alps, Switzerland
Niesen Nappe is Penninic Swiss Prealps comprised of flysch-type sediments (Maastrichtian to Eocene) and crystalline basement slivers (Chittenden et al., 2014)
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Rocky horseshoe-shaped arch of Creux du Van, in the Jura mountains ~1,400 metres wide and 150 metres deep, in the Val de Travers district, in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It is an arch of Limestone and marl carved by glacier during the last ice age (Marescot et al., 2003; Delaloye et al., 2003).
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#Rocky #horseshoe-shaped #arch of #CreuxduVan, in the #Jura #mountains #JuraMountain ~1,400 metres wide and 150 metres deep, in the #ValdeTravers district, in the #canton of #Neuchâtel, #Switzerland #Suisse #Schweiz #Swiss

It is an arch of #Limestone and #Marl carved by @glacier during the #lasticeage #IceAge (Marescot et al., 2003; Delaloye et al., 2003). #Cirque #Rock #Rocks #GeologyRocks #GeologyIsLife #GeologyIsFun #GeologyIsTheBestScience #Geoscience #EarthScience #RockScience #PlanetEarth #SavePlanetEarth

Gastlosen (Pre-Alps) Mountain with resemblance to Italy’s beautiful Dolomites, border area between the cantons of Fribourg, Bern and Vaud, Switzerland. It is a cliff of limestone whose vertical rock faces reach a height of nearly 300 meters in places.

Inclined Limestone Exposure on a Hike from Schwarzsee (Lac Noir) to Kaiseregg, Switzerland
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Inclined #Limestone Exposure on a #Hike from #Schwarzsee #LacNoir to #Kaiseregg #Switzerland #Suisse #Schweiz #Hiking #HikeTrail #HikeRoute #Rock #Rocks #Geology #GeologyRocks #SedimentaryRocks #Mesozoic #MesozoicEra #GeologyIsLife #Weekend #Weekends #Saturdays #Sundays #Sunday #Saturday #Sedimentary #Photography #WeekendPhotography #RockPhotography #HikingPhotography

Cross bedding, Upper Marine Molasse, a poorly consolidated sandstone, city of Fribourg, Switzerland
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