The Mainz Sand Dunes (German: Großer Sand) are a small geological and botanical supra-region and important nature preserve in Mainz, Germany. Within this protected area rare plants and animals can be found. Some of the species represented here, such as the Purple Golden-drop, (Onosma arenaria) grow only here and in small numbers.
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The sand dunes developed after the last ice age (Würm glaciation) and the first resettlement of grassland plants occurred approximately 12,000 years ago.[citation needed] The dry sandy soils are poor of nutrients but relict flora from the glaciation grasslands grow favorably. These plants are found otherwise only in southeast-European, inner-Asiatic (Pontic Steppe) areas and in the Mediterranean respectively. The effective surface of the protected landscape is rather small at 1.27 square kilometers.
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The Sand Dunes can be found between the suburbs Gonsenheim and Mombach and stretches up to the floodplains beginning in Mombach. Bordering the dunes is the Lennebergwald, with an area of 7 km² and therefore the biggest contiguous forest in Rheinhessen. The Lenneberg forest is also protected and shows to some extent the same flora and fauna.[1]
^The Mainz Sand Dunes Nature Reserve Archived 2009-09-15 at the Wayback Machine by Ralf Eichberger
The MainzSandDunes (German: Großer Sand) are a small geological and botanical supra-region and important nature preserve in Mainz, Germany. Within this...
the last ice age, sanddunes were deposited in the Rhine valley at what was to become the western edge of the city. The MainzSandDunes area is now a nature...
and calcareous grassland are growing here like in the neighbouring MainzSandDunes. The climate is temperate and semi-arid to semi-humid. Considering...
Palaeogene) with the Paratethys Sea (part of the shrinking Tethys Ocean). MainzSandDunes Paris Basin Elkins, T H (1972). Germany (3rd ed.). London: Chatto &...
and botanical supra-regionally important nature reserve of MainzSandDunes „Großer Sand“ as well as parts of the Lennebergwald, the biggest connected...
Wilhelm II often watched the military exercises which took place in the MainzSandDunes over many years. These Kaiser-manoeuvres or –parades finally took place...
its sanddune. The first recorded mention of Sandhausen (or "Santhusen") was in 1262; 762 years ago (1262). Sandhausen is named after the ice-age sand dunes...
Hochstraße Lenneberg in the Mainz district of Mombach, through the MainzSandDunes nature reserve, and ends at the Mainz Dreieck in the A 60. Bundesautobahn...
town in the Mainz-Bingen district in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. The town sprawls along the Rhine's left bank. It has been Mainz-Bingen's...
highest terrace in Gonsenheim (near the MainzSandDunes nature reserve), about one kilometer beyond the Mainz-Mombach interchange. This required an elevated...
areas, representing the quarry–pits, filled with aeolian sand, blown from the Thar Desert dunes, and heaps of limestone block, deriving from the prehistoric...
Wingertsbergschule – primary school. The Wingertsbergschule lies on a former sanddune in the Rhine rift on the northeastern edge of its feeder area, the town...
Dudenhofen's outskirts, the Dudenhofen Sand Lime Works (Kalksandsteinwerk Dudenhofen), which quarried the fine dunesand available there for making up to 73...
once not much more than a low-lying basin consisting of marshy lands and sanddunes (to the west), surrounded by low hills on other sides. There is very little...
Eolian Dunes and Sand Sheets in Inland Locations of the Atlantic Coastal Plain Province, USA". In Lancaster, N.; Hesp, P. (eds.). Inland Dunes of North...
commander. The next morning, there is another direct confrontation in the dunes between strikers and a group of coastal fishermen led by the well-off boat...
lagoon, now a considerable fishery) separated from the sea by a line of sand-dunes and connected with it by a Roman channel: Strabo speaks of the city as...
historia de Carolo II. cognomento Parvo, rege Hungariae, Fordította: Márki Sándor, Budapest, Athenaeum, 1910. Michaud, Claude (2000-04-27). "The Kingdoms...
a small part is a not-so-visible moraine escarpment. Aeolian sand with a number of dunes parted by peat swamps or small ponds cover the highest terrace...
Highway: Entdeckungen deutsch-pakistanischer Expeditionen 1979–1984. 1985. Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern. Jettmar. Karl (1980): Bolor & Dardistan. Karl...
extends from the rising side of the Isthmus of Guanarteme, an old spit of sanddunes and mountains linking the peninsula of La Isleta, located to the northeast...
miles inland. Excavation has shown that the city was founded on a virgin sand-dune site with no previous habitation. With possible breaks in occupation in...
Gusev crater, Spirit was dug in deep into the Martian sand, much as Opportunity was at Purgatory Dune in 2005. On January 26, 2010, after six years on Mars...
adaptability allows house mice to inhabit diverse areas ranging from sandy dunes to apartment buildings. House mice have two forms of social behaviour, the...
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