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The Tertiary Hill Country (german: Tertiärhügelland or ''Tertiäres Hügelland''), also called the Tertiary Hills, is an upland area with a moderate climate in the northern Alpine Foreland, which extends northwards as far as the River Danube. It is divided into two simple contiguous regions that are separated by the valley of the
The Tertiary Hill Country as a hydrogeological subregion
(pdf file; 172 kB) {{coord missing, Bavaria Regions of Bavaria Geology of Germany
The Tertiary Hill Country (german: Tertiärhügelland or ''Tertiäres Hügelland''), also called the Tertiary Hills, is an upland area with a moderate climate in the northern Alpine Foreland, which extends northwards as far as the River Danube. It is divided into two simple contiguous regions that are separated by the valley of the Lower Inn
Lower may refer to:
*Lower (surname)
*Lower Township, New Jersey
*Lower Receiver (firearms)
*Lower Wick Gloucestershire, England
See also
*Nizhny
Nizhny (russian: Ни́жний; masculine), Nizhnyaya (; feminine), or Nizhneye (russian: Ни́ ...
which itself is not usually counted as part of the Tertiary Hills. In Germany (Bavaria), the Lower Bavarian Upland
The Lower Bavarian Upland, Lower Bavarian Hill Country (German: ''Niederbayerisches Hügelland'') or Lower Bavarian Hills, are part of the tertiary ''Hügelland'' or hill country south of the River Danube and cover much of the land within the Bava ...
is its larger northwestern element; in Upper Austria
Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, a ...
it forms the Hausruckviertl Mountain and Hill Country (also called the Upper Austrian Hill Country or ''Oberösterreichisches Hügelland''). From a natural region
A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit. Usually, it is a region which is distinguished by its common natural features of geography, geology, and climate.
From the ecology, ecological point of view, the naturally occurring fl ...
al perspective, depending on the definition, it forms one or two 3rd level natural regions.
The Tertiary Hill Country is bordered to the west, south and southeast by old moraine
Old and Young Drift are geographic names given to the morainic landscapes that were formed in Central Europe; the Old Drift during the older ice ages and the Young Drift during the latest glaciations – the Weichselian in North Germany and th ...
gravel plateaux, that also form 3rd order major regions in the northern Alpine Foreland:
* the Iller-Lech Plateau to the west
* the Isar-Inn gravel plateaux in the western south
* the Traun-Danube-Enns gravel plateaux in the eastern south and to the east.
External links
The Tertiary Hill Country as a hydrogeological subregion
(pdf file; 172 kB) {{coord missing, Bavaria Regions of Bavaria Geology of Germany