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Singen (Hohentwiel)

View of the Hegau Volcanoes from Hohentwiel

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View of the Hegau Volcanoes from Hohentwiel

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    July 27, 2023

    Beautiful view of the Ländle 🤩

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      May 17, 2019

      That the Hegau mountains with their volcanic origin so distinctive from the landscape
      Many citizens think of classic volcanoes as they can be seen from other parts of the world
      Earth knows: A steep mountain juts out of the ground and lava spits out of the earth's interior
      out. But the Hegau cones never actually spit in this shape. They originated
      completely underground and were not visible at first. In the middle of
      The heyday of the Miocene, around 14 million years ago, was rumbling in today's Hegau area
      very powerful. Triggers are said to have been a subsidence of the Rhine trench geologists
      his. At that time, the Hegau was at the interface of two so-called fault systems.
      Underground, strong volcanic activity began in the earth's crust. Huge amounts of magma, like
      Lava called before it comes to the surface of the earth, were pushed up.
      About a dozen volcanoes arose, but remained hidden beneath the earth's surface.
      Various rock layers and types were created. Among other things, the Hegauer
      Basalt, which was then mined in earlier decades of our time, such as the
      at Hohenstoffeln.
      For millions of years, these Hegau volcanoes remained underground. Well over 150,000
      For years, a mighty layer of ice covered the Hegau. This glacier moved
      and ground softer rocks from the ground. What remained were the hard cores of the
      extinct volcanoes that still tower out of the ground today and the hilly Hegau
      Landscape characterize, "Herrgott's bowling game", as hometown poet Ludwig Finckh called this.


      (c) suedkurier.de/region/kreis-konstanz/singen/Wie-der-Hegau-zu-seinen-Vulkanen-kam;art372458,9019716,PRINT?_FRAME=64

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        August 7, 2019

        Really nice foresight

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          Location: Singen (Hohentwiel), Landkreis Konstanz, Freiburg District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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