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Klippe
Geological feature / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the style of coin, see Klippe (coin).
A klippe (German for cliff or crag) is a geological feature of thrust fault terrains. The klippe is the remnant portion of a nappe after erosion has removed connecting portions of the nappe. This process results in an outlier of exotic, often nearly horizontally translated strata overlying autochthonous strata.[1]
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