Ardennes Mountains

The Ardennes Massif is the heart of the natural region known as the Ardennes and makes up the largest part of it. It is extended towards Germany by the Eifel Mountains. Its highest point is at 694 m at a place called "Signal de Botrange" in Belgique.Il is composed of the remains of an ancient mountain range that originally had an altitude comparable to that of the Alps. For geologists, this massif is a western dependency of the great Rhine schist massif, a fragment of the Hercynian chain. The crescent-shaped shape of the Ardennes also reflects the general direction of the folds of the old chain, which result in broad synclines and anticlines, the southernmost of which constitutes the anticline zone of the Ardennes proper. The Ardennes Massif underwent a peneplanation and then, during the Cenozoic, an uplift that led to a rejuvenation of its reliefs. This surrection forced rivers such as the Meuse, which crossed it, stumbling left and right, to dig it. From Charleville-Mézières to Namur, the Meuse flows through a series of anticlines and synclines.

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