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Mont Terri
Cornol, Switzerland, Switzerland
Mont Terri is a 804-meter-high mountain in the Jura Mountains range, located south of Cornol in the Canton of Jura, Switzerland, featuring a prehistoric hillfort and the ruins of Mont-Terri Castle on its wooded summit plateau.
The site includes a significant underground rock laboratory in the Opalinus Clay formation, established in 1996 within the Mont Terri motorway tunnel for international research on geological disposal of radioactive waste, with over 1,200 meters of tunnels hosting experiments on hydrogeology and geotechnics.
Recognized as a Swiss heritage site, it overlooks the Ajoie region and connects via the A16 Transjurane motorway, blending natural geology with modern scientific infrastructure.
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2952 Cornol, Switzerland
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