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Mont Terri

Mont Terri (804 metres; 2,638 ft) is one of the mountains of the Jura Mountains range. It is located south of Cornol in the Canton of Jura .
A prehistoric site, Mont-Terri Castle , is located on the summit.

Geological structure

The Mont Terri has an anticline structure and is the northernmost anticline of the folded Jura. The sedimentary rock layers of Jurassic age dip 42° into the direction of SSE. The Mont Terri anticline hosts different tunnel infrastructures.
A limestone underground quarry was first exploited by room and pillar mining for the "Fabrique de chaux" of Saint Ursanne until the 1980s.
Source Wikipedia: "Mont Terri" by miscellaneous authors" under GNU-License.
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