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    The Glarus thrust (German: Glarner Überschiebung) is a major thrust fault in the Alps of eastern Switzerland. Along the thrust the Helvetic nappes were...
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    in the Alps working on the Glarus Thrust; Charles Lapworth, Ben Peach and John Horne working on parts of the Moine Thrust in the Scottish Highlands; Alfred...
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    the Canton Glarus with the Vorderrhein — beyond which arises a wide-stretching mass of rock and glacier, which is part of the Glarus thrust and culminates...
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    The canton of Glarus (German: Kanton Glarus [ˈɡlaːrʊs] Romansh: Chantun Glaruna; French: Canton de Glaris; Italian: Canton Glarona) is a canton in east...
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    Geology portal Tectonophysics Seismology UNESCO world heritage site Glarus Thrust Volcanology Mohorovičić discontinuity Harper, Douglas. "tectonic". Online...
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  • Monte San Giorgio Old City of Berne Rhaetian Railway Jungfrau-Aletsch Glarus thrust Bellinzona Abbey of Saint Gall Villa Le Lac Immeuble Clarté Lodano Bettlachstock...
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    and to its west Piz Segnas, both showing the tectonic line of the Glarus thrust in its upper part, a now UNESCO world heritage. The easiest access to...
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  • Garlock Fault 250 California, United States Sinistral Active Glarus thrust Switzerland Thrust fault Cenozoic Great Glen Fault Scotland Strike-slip Silurian...
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    Flims (category Glarus thrust)
    3099 m. Both Piz Segnas and neighbouring Piz Dolf show the line of the Glarus thrust in its upper part, now a UNESCO world heritage. The easiest access to...
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    Mürtschenstock (category Glarus thrust)
    Mürtschenstock is a mountain massif of the Glarus Alps, overlooking the Walensee in the canton of Glarus. It is composed of several summits, of which...
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    Piz Dolf (category Glarus thrust)
    west Piz Segnas. Both Piz Segnas and Piz Dolf show the line of the Glarus thrust in its upper part. The easiest access to the area is an aerial cableway...
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    a village, and former municipality, in the municipality of Glarus Süd and canton of Glarus in Switzerland. Elm lies in the valley of the Sernf river,...
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    Piz Segnas (category Glarus thrust)
    Piz Segnas is a mountain in the Glarus Alps, located on the border between the cantons of Glarus and Graubünden. Piz Sardona is on the same ridge to the...
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    part south of the Alps belongs to Southern Europe. Monte San Giorgio Glarus thrust Oeschinen Lake Oberaletsch Glacier Aletsch Glacier Konkordiaplatz Jungfraujoch...
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    Badertscher, N.P. & Burkhard, M. 2000. Brittle±ductile deformation in the Glarus thrust Lochseiten (LK) calc-mylonite, Terra Nova, 12, 281-288 Barber, D.J....
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    of the earth based on stratigraphy. His studies where based on the Glarus thrust which he explained as a nappe. Schardt was born in Basel and moved to...
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    – also known as the Central Alps. Limestone Alps Periadriatic Seam Glarus thrust List of mountains of the canton of St. Gallen Economy of Liechtenstein...
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    Tristelhorn (category Glarus thrust)
    The Tristelhorn (also known as Piz da Sterls) is a mountain of the Glarus Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of St. Gallen and Graubünden...
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    Piz Sardona (category Mountains of the canton of Glarus)
    in the Glarus Alps, on the border between the cantons Glarus and St. Gallen. The 3,056 metre high mountain overlooks the valleys of Elm (Glarus) and Calfeisen...
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    Appenzell became the canton of Säntis, while its southern parts together with Glarus became the canton of Linth. Before the 1798 French invasion, the territory...
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    Ringelspitz (category Glarus thrust)
    The Ringelspitz (also known as Piz Barghis) is a mountain of the Glarus Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of St. Gallen and Graubünden...
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    Nappe (redirect from Thrust sheet)
    reinterpreted earlier studies by Arnold Escher von der Linth and Albert Heim in the Glarus Alps. His work in Switzerland influenced Escher and Maurice Lugeon. Several...
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    The white Triangel is Crap Ner and Ofen the white peak to its right (Glarus thrust) Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic maps. Crap Sogn Gion on Hikr...
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  • Escher shows Roderick Murchison the Glarus thrust at the Pass dil Segnas. But Arnold Escher does not publish it as a thrust as it contradicts the geosyncline...
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    Hausstock (category Mountains of the canton of Glarus)
    Hausstock is a mountain in the Glarus Alps, at an elevation of 3,158 m (10,361 ft) on the border between the cantons of Glarus and Graubünden. It overlooks...
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    His initial misinterpretation of the Glarus Alps as resulting entirely from folding rather than from a major thrust fault, an error which he acknowledged...
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    and the so-called alpine orogeny. The major thrust fault of the Tectonic Arena Sardona in the eastern Glarus Alps gives a visible illustration of mountain-building...
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    seized Schwanden and pushed back the 3rd Battalion of the 84th Line beyond Glarus. Soult sent the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 44th Line to Molitor as reinforcements...
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    northward, often breaking and sliding one over the other to form gigantic thrust faults. Crystalline basement rocks, which are exposed in the higher central...
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    was born in Varna, Bulgaria, to a Swiss father (citizenship in Mollis, Glarus) and Czech mother. His father, Fridolin (b. 1868), was a prominent industrialist...
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