Jura Mountains, the Glossary

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1. 121 relations: A40 autoroute, Aare, Aargau, Aiguilles de Baulmes, Ain, Ain (river), Alpine orogeny, Alsace, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Baar (region), Baden-Württemberg, Basel-Landschaft, Bavaria, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, Bernese Jura, Bioclast, Bourg-en-Bresse, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Calcite, Canton of Bern, Canton of Geneva, Canton of Jura, Canton of Neuchâtel, Canton of Schaffhausen, Canton of Solothurn, Canton of Zurich, Cantons of Switzerland, Canyon, Celtic studies, Central Uplands, Chasseral, Chronometry, Col de la Faucille, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Crêt de la Neige, Creux du Van, Décollement, Dent de Vaulion, Departments of France, Doubs, Doubs (river), Drainage basin, Drainage divide, Early Jurassic, Early modern Switzerland, Erosion, Evaporite, Ferdinand de Saussure, Fold (geology), Fort de Joux, ... Expand index (71 more) »

2. Jurassic geology
3. Mountain ranges of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
4. Mountain ranges of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
5. Mountain ranges of Grand Est
6. Mountain ranges of Switzerland

A40 autoroute

The Autoroute A40 is a motorway in France that extends from Mâcon on the west to Passy on the east, terminating not far from Chamonix and the Mont Blanc Tunnel.

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Aare

The Aare or Aar is the main tributary of the High Rhine (its discharge even exceeds that of the latter at their confluence) and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.

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Aargau

Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau (Kanton Aargau; Chantun Argovia; Canton d'Argovie; Canton Argovia), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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Aiguilles de Baulmes

The Aiguilles de Baulmes (1,559 m) are a mountain of the Jura range, located north of Baulmes in the canton of Vaud.

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Ain

Ain (En) is a French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Eastern France.

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Ain (river)

The Ain (En) is a river in eastern France.

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Alpine orogeny

The Alpine orogeny or Alpide orogeny is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed the mountain ranges of the Alpide belt.

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Alsace

Alsace (Low Alemannic German/Alsatian: Elsàss ˈɛlsɑs; German: Elsass (German spelling before 1996: Elsaß.) ˈɛlzas ⓘ; Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.

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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA)Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi.

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Baar (region)

The Baar is a plateau that lies 600 to 900 metres above sea level in southwest Germany.

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Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.

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Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country, informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (Kanton Basel-Landschaft; Chantun Basilea-Champagna; Canton de Bâle-Campagne; Canton Basilea Campagna), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bellegarde-sur-Valserine

Bellegarde-sur-Valserine (literally Bellegarde on Valserine; Bèlagouârda) is a former commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France.

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Bernese Jura

Bernese Jura (Jura bernois,, German: Berner Jura) is the name for the French-speaking area of the Swiss canton of Bern, and from 2010 one of ten administrative divisions of the canton.

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Bioclast

Bioclasts are skeletal fossil fragments of once living marine or land organisms that are found in sedimentary rocks laid down in a marine environment—especially limestone varieties around the globe, some of which take on distinct textures and coloration from their predominate bioclasts—that geologists, archaeologists and paleontologists use to date a rock strata to a particular geological era.

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Bourg-en-Bresse

Bourg-en-Bresse (Bôrg) is the prefecture of the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France.

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Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: Borgogne-Franche-Comtât) is a region in eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté.

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Calcite

Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).

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Canton of Bern

The canton of Bern, or Berne (Kanton Bern; canton de Berne; Chantun Berna; Canton Berna), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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Canton of Geneva

The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the 26 cantons of the Swiss Confederation.

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Canton of Jura

The Republic and Canton of Jura (République et canton du Jura), less formally the Canton of Jura or Canton Jura, is the newest (founded in 1979) of the 26 Swiss cantons, located in the northwestern part of Switzerland.

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Canton of Neuchâtel

The Republic and Canton of Neuchâtel (République et Canton de Neuchâtel, Kanton Neuenburg; Chantun Neuchâtel; Cantone di Neuchâtel) is a mostly French-speaking canton in western Switzerland.

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Canton of Schaffhausen

The canton of Schaffhausen, also canton of Schaffhouse (Kanton Schaffhausen; Chantun Schaffusa; Canton de Schaffhouse; Canton Sciaffusa), is the northernmost canton of Switzerland.

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Canton of Solothurn

The canton of Solothurn or canton of Soleure (Kanton Solothurn; Chantun Soloturn; Canton de Soleure; Canton Soletta) is a canton of Switzerland.

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Canton of Zurich

The canton of Zurich (Kanton Zürich; Canton de Zurich.; Chantun Turitg; Canton Zurigo.) is an administrative unit (canton) of Switzerland, situated in the northeastern part of the country.

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Cantons of Switzerland

The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation.

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Canyon

A canyon (from; archaic British English spelling: cañon), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales.

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Celtic studies

Celtic studies or Celtology is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to the Celtic-speaking peoples (i.e. speakers of Celtic languages).

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Central Uplands

The Central UplandsDickinson (1964), p.18 ff.

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Chasseral

The Chasseral is a mountain of the Jura Mountains, overlooking Lake Biel in the Swiss canton of Bern.

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Chronometry

Chronometry or horology is the science studying the measurement of time and timekeeping. Chronometry enables the establishment of standard measurements of time, which have applications in a broad range of social and scientific areas. Horology usually refers specifically to the study of mechanical timekeeping devices, while chronometry is broader in scope, also including biological behaviours with respect to time (biochronometry), as well as the dating of geological material (geochronometry).

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Col de la Faucille

Col de la Faucille is a high mountain pass in the department of Ain in the French Jura Mountains.

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Commentarii de Bello Gallico (italic), also Bellum Gallicum (italic), is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative.

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Crêt de la Neige

Le Crêt de la Neige is the highest peak in the Jura Mountains and the department of Ain in France.

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Creux du Van

The Creux du Van is a natural rocky cirque approximately 1,400 metres wide and 150 metres deep, on the north side of Le Soliat, in the Val de Travers district in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel.

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Décollement

Décollement is a gliding plane between two rock masses, also known as a basal detachment fault.

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Dent de Vaulion

The Dent de Vaulion is a mountain peak of the Swiss Jura, overlooking the lake of Joux and Vaulion in the canton of Vaud.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.

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Doubs

Doubs (Dubs) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France.

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Doubs (river)

The Doubs (Dubs; Dub (obsolete)) is a river in far eastern France which strays into western Switzerland.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Drainage divide

A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins.

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Early Jurassic

The Early Jurassic Epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic Series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic Period.

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Early modern Switzerland

The early modern history of the Old Swiss Confederacy (Eidgenossenschaft, also known as the "Swiss Republic" or Republica Helvetiorum) and its constituent Thirteen Cantons encompasses the time of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) until the French invasion of 1798.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Evaporite

An evaporite is a water-soluble sedimentary mineral deposit that results from concentration and crystallization by evaporation from an aqueous solution.

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Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 185722 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher.

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Fold (geology)

In structural geology, a fold is a stack of originally planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, that are bent or curved ("folded") during permanent deformation.

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Fort de Joux

The Fort de Joux or Château de Joux is a castle, later transformed into a fort, located in La Cluse-et-Mijoux in the Doubs department in the Jura Mountains of France.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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France–Switzerland border

The France–Switzerland border is long.

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Franche-Comté

Franche-Comté (Frainc-Comtou: Fraintche-Comtè; Franche-Comtât; also Freigrafschaft; Franco Condado; all) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France.

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Franconian Jura

The Franconian Jura is an upland in Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.

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Geologic time scale

The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.

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Georges Dottin

Henri-Georges Dottin (29 October 1863 – 11 January 1928) was a French philologist, Celtic scholar, and politician.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Grand Colombier (Ain)

Grand Colombier (el. 1534 m) is a mountain in the Ain department in eastern France.

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Grand Est

Grand Est ("Great East") is an administrative region in northeastern France.

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Hasenmatt

The Hasenmatt is a mountain of the Jura range, located north of Grenchen and Solothurn in the Swiss canton of Solothurn.

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Ill (France)

The Ill is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France, and a left-bank, or western, tributary of the Rhine.

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Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.

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Jura (department)

Jura is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France.

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Jura ridgeway

The Jura ridgeway is a long-distance hiking trail along the Jura mountain range in Switzerland.

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Jura separatism

Jura separatism (séparatisme jurassien) is a regionalist autonomist movement in the Bernese Jura of Switzerland.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.

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La Barillette

La Barillette (1,525 m) is one of the highest points of Canton Vaud's Jura mountains in Switzerland.

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La Chaux-de-Fonds

La Chaux-de-Fonds is a Swiss city in the canton of Neuchâtel.

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La Dôle

La Dôle is a mountain of the Jura, overlooking Lake Geneva in the westernmost part of the canton of Vaud.

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Landscape

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.

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Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

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Lägern

The Lägern (also spelled Lägeren; 866 m) is a wooded mountain of the Jura Mountains, stretching from Baden to Dielsdorf, about 15 km north-west of Zurich.

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Lélex

Lélex (Le Lèc) is a commune in the department of Ain, eastern France.

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Le Chasseron

Le Chasseron is a mountain in the Jura Mountains, overlooking Sainte-Croix in the canton of Vaud.

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Le Locle

Le Locle (Luggli) is a municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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Le Noirmont (mountain)

Le Noirmont is a mountain of the Jura, located north of Saint-Cergue in the canton of Vaud.

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Le Reculet

Le Reculet is the second-highest peak in the Jura Mountains, with an elevation of 1718 metres.

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Lemma (morphology)

In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms.

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List of prominent mountains of Switzerland

This article contains a sortable table of many of the major mountains and hills of Switzerland.

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Lithology

The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples, or with low magnification microscopy.

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Lyon

Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Middle Jurassic

The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period.

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Mijoux

Mijoux is a commune and village in the Ain department in eastern France.

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Mont d'Or (Jura Mountains)

Mont d'Or (French: Le Mont d'Or) is a mountain of the Jura, located in the French department of Doubs and extending into the Swiss canton of Vaud.

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Mont Racine

Mont Racine (1,439 m) is a peak in the Jura Mountains, located between La Sagne and Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane in the canton of Neuchâtel.

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Mont Tendre

Mont Tendre is a mountain of the Jura, located between the valley of Joux and the basin of Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud.

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Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains.

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Montes Jura

Montes Jura is a mountain range in the northwest part of the near side of the Moon.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Mountain range

A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground.

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Music box

A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or ''lamellae'') of a steel comb.

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Nature parks in Switzerland

Switzerland has eighteen official natural parks (and three candidate parks) classified in three categories (national parks, regional nature parks and nature experience parks).

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Oolite

Oolite or oölite is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers.

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Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura

Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura (Jura Mountains Regional Natural Park) is a French regional natural park located in the southwest of the Jura Mountain Range in France, on the French-Swiss border.

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Pontarlier

Pontarlier (Latin: Ariolica) is a commune and one of the two sub-prefectures of the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France near the Swiss border.

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Randen (mountain range)

The Randen is a small mountain range located between the Jura and the Swabian Jura, north of the Rhine. Jura Mountains and Randen (mountain range) are mountain ranges of Switzerland.

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Rhône

The Rhône is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea.

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Rhône-Alpes

Rhône-Alpes was an administrative region of France.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Rocher des Tablettes

The Rocher des Tablettes (1,288 m) is a mountain of the Jura, located west of Rochefort in the canton of Neuchâtel.

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Saône

The Saône (Sona; Arar) is a river in eastern France.

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Sainte-Croix, Switzerland

Sainte-Croix is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Savoie

Savoie (Arpitan: Savouè or Savouè-d'Avâl; English: Savoy) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Southeastern France.

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Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban

Sébastien Le Prestre, seigneur de Vauban, later styling himself as the marquis de Vauban (baptised 15 May 163330 March 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban, was a French military engineer and Marshal of France who worked under Louis XIV.

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Signal du Mont du Chat

The Signal du Mont du Chat is a mountain in the Jura Mountains with an altitude of 1,504 metres, in France.

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States of Germany

The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states.

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Strabo

StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.

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Sundgau

Sundgau is a geographical territory in the southern Alsace region (Haut Rhin and Belfort), on the eastern edge of France.

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Swabian Jura

The Swabian Jura (Schwäbische Alb, more rarely Schwäbischer Jura), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width.

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Swiss Alps

The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main physiographic regions. Jura Mountains and Swiss Alps are mountain ranges of Switzerland.

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Swiss Plateau

The Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau is one of the three major landscapes in Switzerland, lying between the Jura Mountains and the Swiss Alps.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Table Jura

The so-called Table Jura or Plateau Jura (Tafeljura; le Jura tabulaire) is the northeastern extension of the Jura Mountains. Jura Mountains and Table Jura are mountain ranges of Switzerland.

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Taubenloch

Taubenloch (French: Gorges du Taubenloch) is a gorge in the Canton of Bern, above Biel/Bienne in Switzerland.

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Vaud

Vaud ((Canton de) Vaud), more formally the Canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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Watchmaker

A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches.

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Weissenstein

The Weissenstein (1,395 m) is a mountain of the Jura, located north of Solothurn in the Swiss canton of Solothurn.

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Western Alps

The Western Alps are the western part of the Alpine Range including the southeastern part of France (e.g. Savoie), the whole of Monaco, the northwestern part of Italy (i.e. Piedmont and the Aosta Valley) and the southwestern part of Switzerland (e.g. Valais). Jura Mountains and western Alps are mountain ranges of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and mountain ranges of Switzerland.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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See also

Jurassic geology

• Jura Mountains
• Jurassic Coast
• Jurassic System
• Lias Group
• Phoenix Plate
• Red Hill Syenite
• Szydłowiec sandstone
• Zuñi sequence

Mountain ranges of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

• Aiguilles Rouges
• Ambin group
• Aravis Range
• Bauges Mountains
• Belledonne
• Bornes massif
• Cévennes
• Chablais Alps
• Chartreuse Mountains
• Cottian Alps
• Dauphiné Alps
• Dauphiné Prealps
• French Alps
• French Prealps
• Graian Alps
• Jura Mountains
• Margeride
• Massif Central
• Massif des Écrins
• Massif des Cerces
• Mont Blanc massif
• Mont Pilat
• Monts du Lyonnais
• Savoy Prealps
• Vanoise massif
• Western Alps

Mountain ranges of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

• Jura Mountains
• Morvan
• Vosges

Mountain ranges of Grand Est

• Ardennes
• Jura Mountains
• Vosges

Mountain ranges of Switzerland

• Adula Alps
• Albis
• Albula Alps
• Alps
• Alpstein
• Appenzell Alps
• Bernese Alps
• Bernese Alps in the wide meaning
• Bernina Range
• Central Alps
• Central Eastern Alps
• Chablais Alps
• Dinkelberg
• Dufourspitze
• Eastern Alps
• Emmental Alps
• Gastlosen
• Glarus Alps
• Graian Alps
• Jura Mountains
• Lepontine Alps
• Livigno Alps
• Lugano Prealps
• Mont Blanc massif
• Monte Rosa
• North-Eastern Swiss Alps
• Oberhalbstein Alps
• Ortler Alps
• Pfannenstiel (Zürich)
• Plessur Alps
• Rätikon
• Randen (mountain range)
• Rhaetian Alps
• Saint-Gotthard Massif
• Savoy Prealps
• Schwyz Alps
• Sesvenna Alps
• Silvretta Alps
• Southern Limestone Alps
• Swiss Alps
• Swiss Jura
• Table Jura
• Uri Alps
• Vaud Alps
• Western Alps

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jura_Mountains

Also known as French Jura, Geology of the Jura Mountains, Haut Jura, Haut-Jura, Jura (folds), Jura (mountains), Jura Massif, Jura folds, Jura mountain, Jura range, Jura region, Massif du Jura, Massif of Jura, Swiss Jura, Swiss-French Jura.

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