The Jura Mountains are a range of fold mountains running along the border between France and Switzerland, built mainly from limestone laid down as marine sediment and later folded, more gently than the nearby Alps, during the same broad Alpine mountain building episode. The range lent its name to the Jurassic geological period, named for the limestone strata first studied in these mountains in the early nineteenth century.
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Protected StatusLocally or Regionally Protected 2 Protected Status Connections
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1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: World Database on Protected Areas record: Haute Chaîne Du Jura
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA record, field desig_engQuote, WDPA record, field desig_eng
"desig_eng": "National Nature Reserve"
2. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: World Database on Protected Areas record: Haut-Jura
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA record, field desig_engQuote, WDPA record, field desig_eng
"desig_eng": "Regional Nature Park"
3. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: World Database on Protected Areas record: Crêts du Haut-Jura
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA record, field desig_engQuote, WDPA record, field desig_eng
"desig_eng": "Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)"
Wikidata: Jura Mountains
Wikidata Q178611, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Jura Mountains (Wikipedia)
Caused By: Orogeny, Article text
This deformation accommodates the compression from alpine folding as the main Alpine orogenic front moves roughly northwards.
In Discipline: Geomorphology, Lead paragraph
The Jura Mountains (Jura Massif, JOOR-ə, ZHOOR-ə) are a sub-alpine mountain range, a short distance north of the Western Alps, and mainly demarcate a long part of the French-Swiss border
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