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Grimsel Pass

Name: Grimsel Pass
Address: CH

46.5617°N 8.3453°E · Q666668

One English word in this atlas traces back to Grimsel Pass. It sits in Switzerland.

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grimselitenoun · 1972

Well attested

It was found inside a hydroelectric cable tunnel bored through the Bernese Alps.

Grimselite was described in 1972 from a cable tunnel between Gerstenegg and Sommerloch in the Oberhasli, north of the Grimsel Pass in canton Bern. The tunnel cut a fissure in granite where uranium minerals had crystallized. Type material is at the University of Stuttgart.

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