Molasse Basin

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Molasse Basin

basin, Europe

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mountain
The western segment of the system
…the Alps: this is the Molasse Basin of northern Switzerland and southern Germany. Continental convergence in the past 10 million years has caused folding and thrusting in the Jura Mountains of northwest Switzerland and France, and displacement on ramp overthrusts beneath the front of the Alps has elevated several crystalline…
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…the Alps: this is the Molasse Basin of northern Switzerland and southern Germany. Continental convergence in the past 10 million years has caused folding and thrusting in the Jura Mountains of northwest Switzerland and France, and displacement on ramp overthrusts beneath the front of the Alps has elevated several crystalline…
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