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Mainz Sand Dunes

Index Mainz Sand Dunes

The Mainz Sand Dunes (Großer Sand) are a small geological and botanical supra-region and important nature preserve in Mainz, Germany. [1]

12 relations: Floodplain, Gonsenheim, Grassland, Ice age, Lennebergwald, Mainz, Mombach, Onosma, Pleistocene, Pontic–Caspian steppe, Rhenish Hesse, Rhine.

Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

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Gonsenheim

Gonsenheim is a borough in the northwest corner of Mainz, Germany.

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Grassland

Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Lennebergwald

The Lennebergwald is a forest in the north of Rheinhessen in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.

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Mainz

Satellite view of Mainz (south of the Rhine) and Wiesbaden Mainz (Mogontiacum, Mayence) is the capital and largest city of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.

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Mombach

Mombach, with about 14,000 inhabitants, is a borough in the northwest corner of Mainz, Germany.

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Onosma

Onosma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pontic–Caspian steppe

The Pontic–Caspian steppe, Pontic steppe or Ukrainian steppe is the vast steppeland stretching from the northern shores of the Black Sea (called Euxeinos Pontos in antiquity) as far east as the Caspian Sea, from Moldova and eastern Ukraine across the Southern Federal District and the Volga Federal District of Russia to western Kazakhstan, forming part of the larger Eurasian steppe, adjacent to the Kazakh steppe to the east.

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Rhenish Hesse

Rhenish Hesse or Rhine-Hesse (Rheinhessen) is a region and a former government district (Regierungsbezirk) in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, made up of those territories west of the Upper Rhine river that from 1816 were part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and of the People's State of Hesse until 1945.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.

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Redirects here:

Mainzer Sand, USAG Wiesbaden Military Training Area, Mainz.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz_Sand_Dunes

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