Dent de Morcles
Seen Grande Dent de Morcles and Petite Dent de Morcles of Illarsaz from
The Dent de Morcles is a double peak north of Martigny and the westernmost mountain of the Vaud Alps in Switzerland. The Grande Dent de Morcles reaches a height of 2,969 m above sea level. M., the west upstream Petite Dent de Morcles such of 2'929 m above sea level. M., and together they are referred to as Dents de Morcles. About two peaks, the border between the cantons of Vaud and Valais.
The Dents de Morcles fall in the West very steeply towards the Rhone Valley. The Rhône has at this point a height of 440 m, which corresponds to a height difference of more than 2,500 m from the river to the mountain peaks within a distance of slightly more than 3 km. Together with the west of the Rhone located Dents du Midi, the Dents de Morcles form the gateway to Valais. On the upper west flank of the mountain, the structure and folding of the Morcles blanket is (part of the Helvetic ) well exposed.
South of the mountain ridge are the Dents de Morcles ice-free in summer, to the northeast, however, extends the 1.5 km long Glacier des Martinet, which feeds the stream Avançon de Nant. Located at 2,135 m above sea level between the Dents de Morcles and the Grand Chavalard. M. The Lac de Fully, which was easily dammed up by a small dam. Its water is passed down in a pressure line in the power plant to Fully.
The Morclesfalte
The summit of the Grande Dent de Morcles consists of a clearly visible rock folding. These rock layers of chalk are tilted at about 180 ° and are in their chronostratigraphic sequence runs on. The fold on the west flank of the mountain peak can be seen from the Rhone Valley in Evionnaz well. The Morcles - fold illustrates the complicated situation of the layers location in the Valais Alps area. For a long time, scientists were able to the irritating layers layers throughout the region not conclusively explain because layers occurred at a place where they should not be after theoretical assumptions. Finally, it was recognized that has occurred over long periods of thrust and the extreme folds. In the case of "wrong" positions of individual strata (younger older strata below ) is called in this situation traffic sealed grandchildren.