Geology of Germany clearly set apart from the Alpine foreland, the Northern Limestone Alps form high mountains ("German: ") of well over 2,000 metres above sea level. Of the high mountains of Germany, the highest is Zugspitze, with a height of 2,962 metres, more than a thousand metres higher than Feldberg in the Black Forest, Germany's highest mountain outside the Alps. The Northern Limestone Alps represent a depositional environment that was probably located several hundred kilometres to the south, relative to the current position of the rocks. This is reflected in facies as well as in the fossil record: While in the Eastern
Dom (mountain) Dom (mountain) The Dom is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, located between Randa and Saas-Fee in the canton of Valais. With its summit it is the third highest mountain in the Alps and the second highest in Switzerland, after Monte Rosa. The Dom is the main summit of the Mischabel group (German: "Mischabelhörner"), which is the highest massif lying entirely in Switzerland. Although "Dom" is a German cognate for 'dome', it can also mean 'cathedral' and the mountain is named after Canon Berchtold of Sitten cathedral, the first person to survey the vicinity. The former name "Mischabel" comes from