Lowlands
In geography, a plain or a wide river valley with a height above sea level below about 150 meters is referred to as a low plain (also lowland ) .
With regard to the altitude levels of the mountains , the lowland corresponds to the planar altitude level of ecology , biogeography and geobotany .
Examples
Examples in Germany are the Upper Rhine Plain , the Cologne Bay , parts of the Münsterland and the North German Lowland with numerous landscapes in the northernmost quarter of Germany.
In Austria - in spite of a different name - the Vienna Basin should be included, in Hungary the Pannonian Plain . Due to the sea elevation that is on average too high, Switzerland has no lowlands, except for its share of the Rhine valley near Basel .
In Hungary, the region east of the Danube is also known as the Great Plain (Hungarian Alföld ).
literature
- Hermann Credner: elements of geology. Publishing house Рипол Классик, ISBN 978-5875-4613-54 .
