Devil's Wall in the Evening
David Tanner
LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover, Germany
The Devil's Wall in Germany (Teufelsmauer) is composed of Cretaceous sandstones that were folded and raised into a vertical position by inversion on the Harz north boundary fault. Immediately after obtaining this position, they were intensely silified by fluids and became very hard. Thus the wall has remained after all the weaker surrouding sediments were eroded. The bizarre formation is even better at sunset. The name comes from local legends about how the wall came to be.
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Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
3.9 MB
Aspect
797:912
Width
2391 px
Height
2736 px
Brand
Canon
Model
PowerShot A2000 IS
Exposure
6 mm f/3.2 1/60 s ISO 320
Coordinates
51.8551, 10.8250
Tint
Black
Submitted
18 August 2014
Taken
31 March 2012
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