🌿 Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona

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The Glarus thrust is a major thrust fault in the Alps of eastern Switzerland. Along the thrust the Helvetic nappes were thrust more than 100 km to the north over the external Aarmassif and Infrahelvetic complex. The thrust forms the contact between older (Helvetic) Permo-Triassic rock layers of the Verrucano group and younger (external) Jurassic and Cretaceous limestones and Paleogene flysch and molasse.

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Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona is a natural World Heritage site in Switzerland, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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