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Title: Central Europe
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Partsch, Josef Franz Maria, 1851-1925 Mackinder, Halford John, Sir, 1861-1947, ed Black, Clementina, tr
Subjects: Physical geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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accumu-lation of basalt comparable with the flat cone of theVogelsberg, which rises in long slopes from a basethirty miles in diameter. In the High Rhon also a baseof Triassic sandstone is crowned by a ridge of basalt ;the poor, treeless mountains here divide Hesse andFranconia. If, taking the direction opposed to the flow of thewater, we follow up the Main from Aschaffenburg, or theNeckar from Heidelberg, and approach the region of theirsources, the varying nature of the river bank will show usthe geological formations of Franconia and Swabia inregular succession from the wooded Triassic sandstonemountains of the Spessart and the Odenwald, throughthe fertile plains and the sloping vineyards of the shelllimestone, to the gentle hills of red marl. Ultimatelywe stand in front of the escarpment of the Jurassiclimestone. The Jura chain, from the Falls of the Rhine to thejunction of the sources of the Main, is the largest lime-stone range of inner Germany. While it slopes gently C3EKTKAL 1
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