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Lotterberg
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Lotterberg is a (NHN) high hill between the villages of Wolfershausen and Deute in Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Germany.
== Geology == The hill is composed of basalt that fills the neck of a now-extinct volcano. The volcanic activity was during the Miocene (Neogene), that is it started and ended . This volcano was one of many in the West Hesse Depression. The alkali basalt has a silica (SiO2) volume percentage of 45–55%. The main minerals in the rock are plagioclase, augite and olivine.
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