Translation of "Schiefergebirge" in English

The landscape around Diez is part of the Rhenish Slate Mountains.

In the Thuringian-Franconian-Vogtland Slate Mountains of central Germany the diabase is entirely of Devonian age.

One­third of the surface of North Rhine­Westphalia is hilly (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Weserbergland).

In the south there is the Hunsrück with forest and typical shingle mountains.

To the southeast lies the Thüringer Schiefergebirge, with a sharp border marked by a fracture zone.

In the south east is the Thüringer Schiefergebirge (Thüringen Slate Mountains).

The Rhine Mountains comprise primarily Devonian and Carboniferous rock units of the Rhenohercynian.

The geopark Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus encompasses an area of 3,800 square kilometers and is located entirely within the Rhenish Slate Mountains.

The Weida's source is near Pausa in Saxony; it then flows through the Thüringer Schiefergebirge passing Zeulenroda-Triebes and through the eponymous Weida.

The Lahn leaves the Rhenish Slate Mountains for a long section and reaches the West Hesse Highlands, where it flows through the extreme south of the Wetschaft Depression, north of the Marburger Rücken.

Geomorphologically the Hunsrück bears great similarities to the Eifel, the Taunus and the Westerwald, which are also part of the Rhenish Massif.

The western Middle Hesse belongs to the Rhenish Massif and is therefore its oldest part (formed during the Palaeozoic around 300 to 500 million years ago).

The southernmost and smallest portion, between the Vinxtbach and the area around Bonn still belongs to the Rhenish Massif, through which the river passes in a relatively narrow valley between the heights of the Westerwald and the Eifel Mountains.

When, in the Quaternary period, the Rhenish Massif slowly rose, the meanders of the Moselle were formed between the Trier Valley and the Neuwied Basin.

In western Europe many of the Central Upland ranges fall into the category of truncated uplands - for example the Harz, the Ore Mountains, the Fichtel Mountains and the Rhenish Massif.

Its southern foothills, the Selig (730 m), Steinbiel (745 m) and Fischbachsberg (721 m) form the transition from the mountain railway region of Raanz to the actual Northern High Slate Mountains (Nördlichen Hohen Schiefergebirge).

Many secondary landscape regions only have one major unit group (Mecklenburg Coastal Lowland, Harz, Thuringian Basin, Upper Main-Upper Palatine Hills, Southern Alpine Foreland), others group well-known major regions together (Rhenish Massif, South German Scarplands); others are entirely new groupings.

Whilst the two rivers of the Weser river system in the extreme northeast (Diemel) and east (Eder) discharge into the West Hesse Depression, the Lahn leaves the Highlands after following a semi-circular course and heads southwest into the Rhine Massif again.

Up to 1960, the German part of the Eifel, which belonged to the natural region of the Rhenish Massif, was, according to the Handbook of the Natural Region Divisions of Germany, divided into three major unit (i.e. two-digit) groups and these were subdivided into (three-digit) major natural units.

The model shows the flat flood plain of the southern Lower Rhine, after it has left the Rhenish Schiefergebirge in the south east, and the edges of the bordering highlands of the Bergisch land in the east, as well as the Eifel in the south west.

In a narrow valley between Bingen and Bonn the river Rhine, the main north-south axis, slices through the Rhenish Schist Massif, whose highland areas are less densely populated than the sheltered wine-growing areas on both sides of the Rhine valley which are very popular with tourists.

This slate is sedimentary, but it does not split along sedimantary layers. The rock was folded during the variszian orogeny, which created the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (Rheinian Slate Mountains).