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Palatine-Saarland Muschelkalk Region, the Glossary

The Palatine-Saarland Muschelkalk Region (Pfälzisch-Saarländische Muschelkalkgebiet) - or more accurately the Palatine-Saarland-Lorraine Muschelkalk Region (Pfälzisch-Saarländisch-Lothringisches Muschelkalkgebiet) - is a natural region of the third order in southwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and southern Saarland in Germany, and, on the French side of the border, in northern Lorraine and Alsace bossue.^[1]

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17 relations: Alsace bossue, Bliesgau, Buntsandstein, Carboniferous, Germany, Guttland, Handbook of the Natural Region Divisions of Germany, Keuper, Lorraine, Muschelkalk, Natural regions of Germany, North French Scarplands, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saargau, Saarland, Warndt, Westrich Plateau.
South German Scarplands

Alsace bossue

The Alsace bossue (Alemannic and Frankish: S'Gromme/S'Krumme Elsass, German: das krumme Elsass/ Krummes Elsass), is a territory of Bas-Rhin in Alsace, which includes the three former cantons of Sarre-Union, Drulingen and La Petite-Pierre (today all part of the canton of Ingwiller).

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Bliesgau

The Bliesgau is a region in the state of Saarland in the south-west of Germany and borders with France.

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Buntsandstein

The Buntsandstein (German for coloured or colourful sandstone) or Bunter sandstone is a lithostratigraphic and allostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Guttland

The Guttland is a region covering the southern and central parts of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

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Handbook of the Natural Region Divisions of Germany

The Handbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany (Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands) was a book series resulting from a project by the former German Federal Institute for Regional Studies (Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde) to determine the division of Germany into natural regions.

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Keuper

The Keuper is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe.

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Lorraine

Lorraine, also,,; Lorrain: Louréne; Lorraine Franconian: Lottringe; Lothringen; Loutrengen; Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est.

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Muschelkalk

The Muschelkalk (German for "shell-bearing limestone"; calcaire coquillier) is a sequence of sedimentary rock strata (a lithostratigraphic unit) in the geology of central and western Europe.

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Natural regions of Germany

This division of Germany into major natural regions takes account primarily of geomorphological, geological, hydrological, and pedological criteria in order to divide the country into large, physical units with a common geographical basis.

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North French Scarplands

The North French Scarplands (Nordfranzösische Schichtstufenland; French: Hautes Terres du Nord-Est) is a scarp landscape comprising various highlands and uplands in northern France, eastern Belgium, Luxembourg and western Germany.

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