Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains
Appearance
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The Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains (German: Schwäbisches Keuper-Lias-Land) is a major natural region in southwest Germany and includes the southwesternmost part of the Keuper Uplands, which is bordered immediately to the north by the Swabian Jura.
Natural regions
[edit]The Swabian Keuper lands are divided into three natural regional groups and their 3-figure major units which are given 3-figure numbers: [1]
- 10 (=D58) Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains
- 100 Foreland of the western Swabian Jura (Vorland der mittleren Schwäbischen Alb)
- 101 Foreland of the central Swabian Jura (Vorland der mittleren Schwäbischen Alb)
- 102 Foreland of the eastern Swabian Jura (Vorland der östlichen Schwäbischen Alb)
- 103 Nördlinger Ries
- 104 Schönbuch and Glemswald
- 105 Stuttgart Bay
- 106 Filder
- 107 Schurwald and Welzheim Forest
- Schurwald
- Lower Rems Valley
- Welzheim Forest
- 108 Swabian-Franconian Forest (Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald)
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- BfN landscape fact file for Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria - all landscapes with a five-digit number beginning with "10" belong to the Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains; the first three digits stand for the major unit.