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5 unusual facts about Graben


Aulacogen

As aulacogens remain places of weakness, given the appropriate conditions, they can reactivate into active rift valleys again, as had happened to the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben in Ontario and Quebec, Canada, an ancient aulacogen that reactivated during the breakup of Pangaea.

European Cenozoic Rift System

The system began to form during the Late Eocene and parts, particularly the Upper and Lower Rhine Grabens, remain seismically active today and are responsible for most of the larger earthquakes in Europe, north of the Alps.

Graben, Switzerland

The municipality is located at the confluence of the Önz into the Aare river a nature reserve.

Graben, Vienna

The Graben also served as a site for triumphal processions, in particular for the arrival of Archdukes and Emperors.

Schanigarten

Indeed a first authorization to put up tables and chairs on the street was given around 1750 to Johann (Gianni) Jokob Tarone (Tarroni), a former distiller probably of Italian descent who had opened a coffeehouse on Graben.


Andreas von Graben

He was born as the son of Friedrich I von Graben († 1422 at Schloss Kornberg) and Katharina von Summeregk (Sommeregg); Friedrich II von Graben was a brother of him.

Berw Fault

Any Caledonian deformation is unclear but the fault zone was reactivated in the Carboniferous as a NW-throwing normal fault with seismic reflection data showing the formation of a half-graben in its hanging wall.

Geology of Paraguay

The Creataceous volcanism did also created minor outcrops of potassic alkaline volcanics in a graben structure developed between Asunción and Villarrica and in Amambay Department.

Graben Horn

It was discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition under Ritscher, 1938–39, who named it in association with Humboldt Graben.

Klippitztörl Pass

The pass road is 28 km and goes south at Bad St. Leonhard from Federal Highway B78 over the pass to Lölling-Graben, where it joins Federal Highway B92 south of Hüttenberg.

Rosina von Graben von Rain

Rosina von Graben von Rain zu Sommeregg, also called Rosina von Rain (15th century — 1534 (?)) was an Austrian noble woman descending from the House of Graben von Stein, a cadet branch of the Meinhardiner dynasty.

Virgil von Graben

Virgil von Graben (15th century — 1507) was an Austrian noble and knight, who was stadtholder of Lienz and East Tyrol and Regent (captain) and stadtholder of Görz.

West Hesse Depression

This zone is a succession of grabens that run from the Rhone Valley through the Rhine Rift, the Wetterau and the Gießen Basin, below the Vogelsberg foothills to the Amöneburg Basin, and from there over the Neustadt Saddle in the West Hesse Depression and continuing along the Leine Graben to the Oslo Rift valley.


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