Mediterranean Mjosen Zone
The Mediterranean-Mjosen Zone is a fracture zone in the continental crust that runs through Europe from the Mediterranean via Marseille , along the Rhine Rift, to Lake Mjøsa in southern Norway over a length of 2000 km.
The term Mediterranean-Mjösen-Zone was coined around 1930 by the German geologist Hans Stille . The Rhone Valley and its northern continuation, the Bresse Graben, the Upper Rhine Graben and the Mainz Basin belong to the rupture zone as individual elements . Here the fracture system divides into a north-east and a north-west branch. The north-western branch includes the Lower Rhine Bight and the Niederrheinische Graben as the central Dutch fracture zone, while the northeast branch includes the Wetterau , the Giessen Basin , the Amöneburg Basin , the Neustädter Sattel , the West Hessian Basin , the Leinegraben , part of the salt dome region in northern Germany, the Kattegat , the Oslo trench and finally the Mjøsa lake.
In the area around the Mediterranean-Mjösen zone, volcanic activities sometimes occurred, as demonstrated, for example, by the Kaiserstuhl or the Hohe Habichtswald west of Kassel , which is mainly composed of basalts .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mediterranean-Mjösen-Zone in the Lexicon of Geography from Spektrum.de, accessed October 20, 2017