Reddening (landscape)

This article describes a landform. For reddening in the sense of roasting see under roasting .

Rotten (Swedish röta = putrefaction) is the name for small, shallow depressions in the area of ​​the salt marshes, mainly on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, which is not influenced by tides . The blushes are usually filled with sea water in winter and spring . This begins to heat up and evaporate strongly in summer , whereby the contained life dies and turns into putrefaction. The ground, which is finally dry, is cracked and bare, and there are parts of salt efflorescence . Areas with numerous blushes are the habitat of less salt-tolerant plants. The low vegetation makes reddish salt marshes the preferred habitat of some waders .