Seerhein
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The Seerhein (; cf. Rheinsee) is a river about long, in the basin of Lake Constance (). It is the outflow of the Upper Lake Constance and the main tributary of the Lower Lake Constance. The water level of the Lower Lake is about below the level of the Upper Lake. It is considered part of the river Rhine, which flows into Lake Constance as the Alpine Rhine and flows out of the Lower Lake as the High Rhine.
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Location
- General
- Seerhein valley
- Transport
- Paleogeographic Development
- History
- Water miracles of Constance
- See also
- Sources
- Footnotes
The Seerhein (; cf. Rheinsee) is a river about long, in the basin of Lake Constance (). It is the outflow of the Upper Lake Constance and the main tributary of the Lower Lake Constance. The water level of the Lower Lake is about below the level of the Upper Lake. It is considered part of the river Rhine, which flows into Lake Constance as the Alpine Rhine and flows out of the Lower Lake as the High Rhine.
The Seerhein arose after the last ice age (the Würm glaciation, about 9650 BCE). Some time after this period, the water level of Lake Constance gradually dropped by about ten metres and the shallow parts fell dry. Some parts of the Seerhein still have a lake-like character.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Seerhein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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