Layer rib

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A stratum rib is a layer of sedimentary rocks that was relatively strongly tilted or even vertically positioned due to tectonic processes in the geological past , which today protrudes above the surface of the terrain because it has a higher resistance to weathering and erosion than the layers overlying or underlying it (competence contrast) .

Examples of particularly prominent stratified ribs in Germany are:

• the devil's wall in the northern Harz foreland
• the Externsteine in the Teutoburg Forest
• the Ith comb in Weserbergland
• the Richelsley in the western North Eifel

See also

• Geological structural shape