Elfas

The Elfas is a range of hills up to 409.6 m above ocean level in the areas of Holzminden and Northeim in Lower Saxony Germany. Its name is gotten from the Lower Saxon word Fast, which implies a region of upland that dives on opposite sides. The Elfas is situated amidst the Leine Uplands between the Hils toward the north, the Homburg Forest toward the west, the Hube toward the east, the Amtsberge toward the south-southwest and the Holzberg toward the southwest. It lies not far southwest of Eschershausen and east of Stadtoldendorf; the town of Einbeck is around 12 km southeast of the Elfas. The B 64 government roadway keeps running past the Elfas toward the north connecting Eschershausen with Einbeck.

The Elfas is fundamentally made out of sandstones from the Bunter sandstone period. As the aftereffect of a halokinetic procedure, which had just been deduced in the Palaeogene time frame, the Elfas deficiency square relocated in a north-easterly bearing towards the Solling, whereby the mountain-developing sandstone rode over a layer of saliniferous shake of the Zechstein. Throughout this procedure, primarily more established shake strata that had up to this point lain underneath, were overthrust. Out of the consequent disintegration forms the present scarpland developed as the northern limit of the Einbeck-Markoldendorf Basin.