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Mieminger Mountains are located in one of these stacks: the Inn Valley or Inntal Stack. Almost all the rocks in the Mieminger range were formed at one stage on the seabed and consist of
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Mieminger range with the Lechtal Alps. The unnamed saddle near the Ehrwalder Alm is the link between the Mieminger Chain and the Wetterstein. The Seefelder saddle links the Mieminger Chain with the Karwendel.
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Glacier was about 1,000 metres thick and, after the ice had melted about 10,000 years ago, it left behind that typical feature of ice age terrain: moraines. The remnants of the ice sheet in the mountains formed classic
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in the extreme east receive large numbers of visitors, the less developed central area remains very quiet. The Hohe Munde is also a popular and challenging ski touring destination.
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883:Via Alpina
827:Wankspitze
821:Tschirgant
791:Hohe Munde
737:Hohe Munde
684:Hochwannig
680:Hohe Munde
636:Nassereith
614:Boundaries
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242:Drachensee
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659:Fern Pass
640:Fern Pass
620:River Inn
596:Karwendel
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98:Geography
87:Elevation
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858:Alplhaus
838:ski area
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530:Ice ages
488:Jurassic
484:Triassic
395:Tajatörl
355:Cenozoic
347:Jurassic
343:Triassic
332:volcanic
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