An array of Riga (Switzerland)

Located just north of the mountains Mitenev - an array of Riga, on the contrary, geologotektonicheskoy point of view represents an innocuous hill, though widely known among tourists (think of a humorous description of Mark Twain, published in 1878!). The mountain is composed of flat-lying Tertiary conglomerates, sandstones and other rocks (molasse), which are deposited only after a large alpine folding and thrust sheets stopped. orogeny in Prospector always associated with the violation of the occurrence of rocks, that is, for it is primarily a tectonic concept. Under this angle we looked at the mountains Mitenev. Basically, with regard to the major folds and uplifts, shape of the mountains due to tectonics, but more subtle, and often more prominent features of his closely related to the continuous influence of external forces: weathering, running water, glaciers, wind. about these forces, we often speak in pashas book, they, too, of course, relate to processes that form, or rather transformed, Mt. Those who visit the Firvaldshtetskom lake can be found in "Glacier Garden in Lucerne little rock, processed glacier. major Swiss Geologist A. Geim, whose name we have mentioned several times, also carefully studied the rock, as carefully analyzed, and various tectonic ideas that arose from the geologists who studied the Swiss Alps.