Lithostratigraphically, the Rügen chalk belongs to the Hemmoor Formation of the Chalk Group and is formally defined as the Rügen Member within this formation...
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The "gateway" to Rügen island is the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, where it is linked to the mainland by road and railway via the Rügen Bridge and Causeway...
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Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (German: Kreidefelsen auf Rügen) is an oil painting of circa 1818 by German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. In January 1818...
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of chalk, as well as rain and erosion, has caused the ground in some places to collapse into the remnants of ancient chalk mines and tunnels. Rügen Chalk...
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Jasmund (category Geography of Rügen)
the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is connected to the Wittow peninsula and to the Muttland main section of Rügen by the narrow...
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Jasmund National Park (category Geography of Rügen)
peninsula, in the northeast of Rügen island in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is famous for containing the largest chalk cliffs in Germany, the highest...
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(King's Chair) is the best-known chalk cliff on the Stubbenkammer in Jasmund National Park on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen. It lies at 118 m above sea level...
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Sassnitz (category Towns and villages on Rügen)
after the fishing village on Rügen. He also wrote about the Herthasee lake and coined the phrase in his book: "To travel to Rügen is to travel to Saßnitz."...
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district of Germany Nord-Rügen West-Rügen Rügen Chalk (Ruegen Formation), a white chalk geologic formation in Germany Operation Rügen, code name for the 1937...
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Dinosaur Land on the German island of Rügen (German: Dinosaurierland Rügen) was opened by Rüdiger Kunkel on 30 April 2008 on land that had belonged to...
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