This section of the site contains our photographs of natural landscapes of the world, including geological formations, relief forms, natural water bodies and vegetation types, as well as some plants and animals, typical to different native zones and geographical regions.
This page contains the list of images of the Switzerland (Western
Alps) nature: natural landscapes and some plants.
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(each photo has a semantic geographical or biological captions, explaining illustrated objects).
Europe
Switzerland
(Western Alps)
The Bern Alps - one of the Western Alps ridges (height is about 4000 meters above sea
level).
Beech forests and sub alpine meadows border altitude zone
(altitude is about 2000 meters above sea level).
Canton Valais, Sion outskirts, Rona river valley
Beech forests and sub alpine meadows border altitude zone
(altitude is about 2000 meters above sea level).
Earth-pillars on the slope of the valley. The Bern Alps - one of the Western Alps ridges.
Canton Valais, Sion outskirts, Rona river valley
The "Earth-pillars" - the boulder lying on the top of the moraina sediments
column,
that was eroded by the water. The Bern Alps - one of the Western Alps ridges.
Canton Valais, Sion outskirts, Rona river valley
The "Earth-pillars" - the boulder lying on the top of the moraina sediments
column,
that was eroded by the water. The deciduous (beech) forest zone.
Bern Alps - one of the Western Alps ridges. Canton Valais, Sion outskirts, Rona river
valley
Ivy, or Common Ivy, or English Ivy (Hedera helix): generative shoots with fruits
(leaves are different from the vegetative shoots that are lociniate)