Limburg Basin, the Glossary
The Limburg Basin (Limburger Becken) is one of the two large intramontane lowland areas within the Rhenish Massif in Germany, the other being the Middle Rhine Basin.[1]
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32 relations: Aar (Lahn), Bad Schwalbach, Basalt, Beselich, Chernozem, Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line, Corallian Group, Devonian, Diabase, Dietkirchen, Elbbach, Elz, Hesse, Emsbach, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany, Hadamar, Heidenhäuschen, Hintertaunus, Hot spring, Lahn, Limburg an der Lahn, Loess, Middle Rhine Basin, Mineral spring, Rheingau, Rhenish Massif, Root vegetable, Schüpbach, Schlangenbad, Villmar, Volcanism, Westerwald.
- Basins of Germany
- Natural regions of Germany
- Rhenish Massif
Aar (Lahn)
The Aar is a river in western Germany, left tributary of the Lahn.
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Bad Schwalbach
Bad Schwalbach (called Langenschwalbach until 1927) is the district seat of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany.
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Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
Beselich
Beselich is a municipality in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
See Limburg Basin and Beselich
Chernozem
Chernozem (from r; "black ground"), also called black soil, regur soil or black cotton soil, is a black-colored soil containing a high percentage of humus (4% to 16%) and high percentages of phosphorus and ammonia compounds.
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Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line
The Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line (Schnellfahrstrecke Köln–Rhein/Main) is a railway line in Germany, connecting the cities of Cologne and Frankfurt.
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Corallian Group
The Corallian Group or Corallian Limestone is a geologic group in England.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.
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Diabase
Diabase, also called dolerite or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.
Dietkirchen
Dietkirchen an der Lahn is a borough (Ortsbezirk) of Limburg an der Lahn, seat of the district of Limburg-Weilburg in the state of Hesse, Germany.
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Elbbach
Elbbach is a river in Germany, about long.
Elz, Hesse
Elz is a municipality in Limburg-Weilburg district in western Hesse, Germany, on the boundary with Rhineland-Palatinate.
See Limburg Basin and Elz, Hesse
Emsbach
Emsbach is a river of Hesse, Germany.
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN) is the German government's scientific authority with responsibility for national and international nature conservation.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Hadamar
Hadamar is a small town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
Heidenhäuschen
Heidenhäuschen is a hill of Hesse, Germany.
See Limburg Basin and Heidenhäuschen
Hintertaunus
The Hintertaunus ("Farther Taunus") is a natural region in the German Central Upland range of the Taunus (major unit group 30), which rises to a height of and lies north of the High Taunus (301).
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Hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.
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Lahn
The Lahn is a, right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany.
Limburg an der Lahn
Limburg an der Lahn (officially abbreviated Limburg a. d. Lahn) is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany.
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Loess
A loess (from Löss) is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.
Middle Rhine Basin
The Middle Rhine Basin (Mittelrheinische Becken) is the central landscape region of the Middle Rhine in Germany and, along with the Limburg Basin, forms one of the biggest intra-montane lowland regions within the Rhenish Massif. Limburg Basin and Middle Rhine Basin are Basins of Germany and Rhenish Massif.
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Mineral spring
Mineral springs are naturally occurring springs that produce hard water, water that contains dissolved minerals.
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Rheingau
The Rheingau is a region on the northern side of the Rhine between the German towns of Wiesbaden and Lorch near Frankfurt, reaching from the Western Taunus to the Rhine.
See Limburg Basin and Rheingau
Rhenish Massif
The Rhenish Massif, Rhine Massif or Rhenish Uplands (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge,: 'Rhenish Slate Uplands') is a geologic massif in western Germany, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France.
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Root vegetable
Root vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by humans as food.
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Schüpbach
Schüpbach is a surname.
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Schlangenbad
Schlangenbad is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.
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Villmar
Villmar is a market village and municipality in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
Volcanism
Volcanism, vulcanism, volcanicity, or volcanic activity is the phenomenon where solids, liquids, gases, and their mixtures erupt to the surface of a solid-surface astronomical body such as a planet or a moon.
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Westerwald
The Westerwald (literally 'Western forest') is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. Limburg Basin and Westerwald are Rhenish Massif.
See Limburg Basin and Westerwald
See also
Basins of Germany
- Bullengraben
- Döhlen Basin
- Limburg Basin
- Middle Rhine Basin
- Ore Mountain Basin
- Steinheim crater
- Thuringian Basin
Natural regions of Germany
- Alpine Foreland
- Aper Tief
- Central Saxon Hills
- Central Uplands
- Cologne Lowland
- East Hesse Depression
- Eider-Treene Depression
- Eifel
- Elbe Marshes
- Haller Plain
- Handbook of the Natural Region Divisions of Germany
- Harz
- Heide-Itzehoe Geest
- Hessian Central Uplands
- High Fichtel Mountains
- Hildesheim Börde
- Holstein Switzerland
- Iller-Lech Plateau
- Klues Forest
- Krempe Marsh
- Lüneburg Heath
- Lange Berge
- Limburg Basin
- Linteln Geest
- List of natural regions in Schleswig-Holstein
- Lower Bavarian Upland
- Magdeburg Börde
- Natural regions of Germany
- North German Plain
- Old Bavarian Donaumoos
- Saxon Loess Fields
- Schleswig Geest
- Schwalm (region)
- Senne (Germany)
- Steigerwald Nature Park
- Thuringian Basin
- Upland (mountain range)
- Wendland and Altmark
Rhenish Massif
- Ardennes
- Bergisches Land
- Eifel
- Giessen nappe
- Gladenbach Uplands
- High Fens
- Hunsrück
- Kellerwald
- Keseberg (hill)
- Limburg Basin
- List of mountains and hills of the Rhenish Massif
- Lower Westerwald
- Middle Rhine Basin
- Prüm Syncline
- Rhenish Massif
- Sauerland
- Siegerland
- Taunus
- Westerwald