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Earth Pyramids of Ritten
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On the Ritten, Europe's highest and most beautiful earth pyramids invite you to a summit meeting: in Lengmoos, Oberbozen and Unterinn, the almost bizarre-looking clay cones can be admired at three locations.
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From Kolbenstein there is a signposted hiking trail to Lengmoos to the earth pyramids
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THE FORMATION OF THE EARTH PYRAMIDS
Earth pyramids consist of conical clay piled up and the boulders lying on top of it and often form bizarre landscape shapes. They can form in soils made of late glacial moraine clay, which was left behind here on the Ritten by the main Eisacktal glacier and some local side glaciers. These soils are rock hard when dry, but as soon as it rains they turn into a soft mush, slide down and form steep slopes 10 to 15 meters high.
Earth pyramids consist of conical clay piled up and the boulders lying on top of it and often form bizarre landscape shapes. They can form in soils made of late glacial moraine clay, which was left behind here on the Ritten by the main Eisacktal glacier and some local side glaciers. These soils are rock hard when dry, but as soon as it rains they turn into a soft mush, slide down and form steep slopes 10 to 15 meters high.
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