page_title: Palatinate Forest
section_title: General features
hierarchical_section_title: Palatinate Forest / Geomorphology / Valleys and streams / General features
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Moosalbe im Naturschutzgebiet „Karlstalschlucht“
context_page_description: The Palatinate Forest, sometimes also called the Palatine Forest, is a low-mountain region in southwestern Germany, located in the Palatinate in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The forest is a designated nature park covering 1,771 km² and its highest elevation is the Kalmit.
  Together with the northern part of the adjacent Vosges Mountains in France it forms the UNESCO-designated Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve.
context_section_description: Characteristic of the Lower and Middle Bunter are V-shaped valleys, with narrow floors and steep sides, cutting deeply into the bedrock. They are the typiscal valley forms in the central Palatinate Forest, whilst in the southern and northern parts, U-shaped valleys with wider floors predominate. In the southwestern part of the Forest are the so-called woog valleys, in which the valley floor is wide and they are therefore especially well suited for the construction of ponds, or woogs, reservoirs and small lakes (see below).
caption: Water conducting and feeding rock zone of the Karlstal beds: Moosalb im Karlstal
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