Fossa Magna is a great

rift In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics. Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted depression, called a graben, or more commonly a half-grabe ...

lowland in Japan. It is often confused with

Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line , also Ito Shizu Sen (糸静線) is a major fault on Honshu island that runs from the city of Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, through Lake Suwa to the city of Shizuoka in Shizuoka Prefecture. It is often confused with the Fossa Magna (Great Fis ...

. However,

is a line; Fossa Magna is an area. Fossa Magna is

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

for "great crevasse". This name was given by Heinrich Edmund Naumann.

Fossa Magna Museum

Fossa Magna Museum is a museum that is located in Itoigawa,

Niigata Prefecture is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,227,496 (1 July 2019) and is the fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area at . Niigata Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture and ...

. It opened on April 25, 1994. It is part of Itoigawa UNESCO Global Geopark. Itoigawa is located directly above

and is a place where you can observe a wide variety of rocks, minerals, geological structures and so on. In addition, There is Fossa Magna Park in Itoigawa.

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