Montagne de Vuache
| Montagne de Vuache | ||
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 The Vuache from Belvedère de Léaz looked |
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| height | 1105 m | |
| location | In the west of the Haute-Savoie department | |
| Mountains | law | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 3 '28 " N , 5 ° 56' 24" E | |
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| rock | limestone | |
The Montagne de Vuache is a 1,105 meter high ridge in the French department of Haute-Savoie near the border with Switzerland .
geography
The ridge belongs to the southern Jura and consists mainly of limestone. It stretches in a straight line from north-northwest to south-southeast, is about 14 kilometers long and between 1.5 and three kilometers wide. To the north, the Vuache in the Défilé de l'Écluse drops steeply to the Rhône , but its geological sequence of layers continues in the opposite valley flank at the foot of the Grand Crêt d'Eau . To the south of its highest elevation at 1105 m , the ridge slopes more gently than on its north side into the Genevois . On the southern slopes on a small pass at 606 m of the site Chaumont , after which the site deepens in the canyon of Fornant one, a tributary of the Usses . Beyond the gorge, the 702 m high Le Mont or Le Mont de Musièges forms the southernmost continuation of the Vuache.
The region around the mountain is seismologically active due to the Vuache Trench. On July 15, 1996, an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale occurred at a depth of two kilometers.
Other villages and communities on the slopes of the Vuache are Arcine , Clarafond-Arcine and Chilly to the west, and Chevrier , Vulbens , Raclaz and Murcier to the east . The Vuache tunnel of the A40 motorway , which runs from Lyon to Geneva , runs through the mountain .
Web links
- Hiking on the Vuache , Saint-Julien and des Genevois tourist office .
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Charollais et al .: Présentation d'une nouvelle carte géologique du Vuache et du Mont de Musièges . In: Arch.Sci . tape 66 , 2013, p. 37 (French, online [PDF]).
- ↑ High resolution 3D laser scanner measurements of a strike- slip fault quantify its morphological anisotropy at all scales (PDF; 319 kB), François Renard, Christophe Voisin, David Marsan, Jean Schmittbuhl, p. 2