Albtrauf
Albtrauf is the German name indicating a place of caesura between the plain of Neckar and the the Jura souabe (in the North-West of those). It is a zone of steep slopes (almost of cliffs, extended on tens of kilometers which delimits the plain of the low mountain (and of the plate souabe).
Geology
Albtrauf is the Côte or Cuesta (in Géologie, an east coast a " modelled " between the plain and the plate) delimiting the plate Souabe in the western south of Germany. It continues in western north and delimits the the Alps franconiennes and in the the Jura in the western south.
Phenotype
The coast reaches on average 35°, and the average height of Albtrauf is highest in the area of Balingen (400 of uneven between full and mountain delimited by the " mur" of Albtrauf). The Végétation is made up in major part of forests of Fagus. One notices also the rock Nez white characteristics of the area. Besides because of the blue aspect of the fagus seen horizon, one calls often Albtrauf the " wall bleu".
Because of erosion (and current tectonic inactivity of the area) Albtrauf moves back and the mountains as the Achalm erode, forming cuestas. The the most known flat-topped outliers, ahead station of Albtrauf are the Hohenstaufen, the Achalm and the Zoller. But the Achalm mount is in fact of origin Volcanique. The most known flat-topped outliers of the plate souabe are Hesselberg, Michelsberg, Farrenberg, and Plettenberg
Source
Translation of the German version----