Summer campaign on site in the Alps with the LED: Daniel Miescher, LED Foundation Board member and renowned expert on the geology of Liechtenstein, took the LED team on a guided excursion in mid-July to raise awareness of the major geological connections and their impact on today’s human habitat.
On the way from Malbun to Alpe Guschg in Steg, for example, Daniel Miescher explained the multi-layered, parallel transformation processes to which we owe today’s majestic Alpine world in Liechtenstein and the Rhine Valley. Looking at this ophiolite on the Schmelzikopf (top left in the picture), who would have thought that this rock was once (basaltic) lava that solidified into the typical pillow shape millions of years ago under the pressure and cold of the Tethys Sea (link).
