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On Kab-hegy, the landscape above Lake Balaton is shaped by deep time: this 599-metre peak in the Déli-Bakony rises between Úrkút and Nagyvázsony. The mountain’s broad, cone-like form is capped by Pliocene basalt, formed by lava that spilled onto Triassic limestone and dolomite, in multiple eruptive phases—its last lava even weathered into red, slaggy rock. Because the lava spread over more erosion-resistant dolomite here, Kab-hegy has not become a classic “witness hill,” unlike basalt remnants such as Badacsony or Hegyestű. The summit is crowned by communications infrastructure, including a 219-metre television tower built in 1962 and a smaller, now disused 133-metre antenna tower. …
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