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Upper Palatinate

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Upper Palatinate, Germany: see Palatinate Rhenish or Lower Palatinate (Ger. Rheinpfalz or Niederpfalz), often called simply the Palatinate, is a district (c.2,100 sq mi/5,440 sq km) of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Ger. Rheinland-Pfalz).
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One of the walls is made of Upper Palatinate granite, and the other of larch from Bohemia.
West Germany has given the go-ahead for a 14-kilometer hole to be drilled in either the Black Forest or the Upper Palatinate district beginning in 1988 German geophysicists are especially interested in using the hole to study the stresses that have developed over the last 600 million years in the European crust from the interaction of the American, African and Asian plates.
 
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