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The Burgbach Waterfall (german: Burgbachwasserfall) in the vicinity of Fact brief by the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (pdf), 3 November 2014
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The Burgbach Waterfall (german: Burgbachwasserfall) in the vicinity of Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach
Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach ( Low Alemannic: ''Ribbeldsau-Schaba'') is a municipality in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
Geography
The Municipality is located in the black forest in the Wolftal valley, 15&n ...
in the Black Forest
The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is ...
has a drop of 15 metres/ref> and a total height of 32 metres making it one of the highest free falling
waterfall
A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.
Waterfalls can be formed in severa ...
s in Germany. Its rock shelf is made of hard, silicified
In geology, petrifaction or petrification () is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals. Petrified wood typifies this proce ...
sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
s of the Upper Rotliegendes
The Rotliegend, Rotliegend Group or Rotliegendes (german: the underlying red) is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) of latest Carboniferous to Guadalupian (middle Permian) age that is found in the subsurface of large areas in ...
(Permian
The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Pale ...
), which lie over less weather-resistant granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies und ...
s that are easy to carve out. The waterfall is classified as a geological natural monument
A natural monument is a natural or natural/cultural feature of outstanding or unique value because of its inherent rarity, representative of aesthetic qualities or cultural significance.
Under World Commission on Protected Areas guidelines, na ...
. The Burgbach flows steeply downhill to the River Wolf
The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...
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