The Lusatian Border Ridge (german: Lausitzer Grenzwall), also called the Lusatian Border Wall,
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The Lusatian Neisse (german: Lausitzer Neiße; pl, Nysa Łużycka; cs, Lužická Nisa; Upper Sorbian: ''Łužiska Nysa''; Lower Sorbian: ''Łužyska Nysa''), or Western Neisse, is a river in northern Central Europe.[Poland
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as the ''Wał Trzebnicki'' (Trebnitz Ridge) as far as the River Bóbr (German: '' Bober'').
The Lusatian Border Ridge and the Muskau Fold Arc consist of about 150,000 year old shove end moraine arcs of the Warthe Stage of the Saalian glaciation, that are characterized by several parallel valleys and ridges. In the area of the push moraines, layers of Cenozoic rock have been pushed up to the surface. The heavily rounded to flat slabs are covered by areas of sandur in the south. The longitudinal valleys are partly filled with water.
By historical times the coal seams in strata near the surface were already being exploited for fuel.
The natural vegetation would be mixed sessile oak
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Origin of names
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-pine
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woodland, oak and beech forest and mixed beech-sessile oak-English oak woodland.
The Lusatian Border Ridge also forms the boundary between Lower
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*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 ...
and Upper Lusatia
Upper Lusatia (german: Oberlausitz ; hsb, Hornja Łužica ; dsb, Górna Łužyca; szl, Gōrnŏ Łużyca; pl, Łużyce Górne or ''Milsko''; cz, Horní Lužice) is a historical region in Germany and Poland. Along with Lower Lusatia to the ...
, hence the name, which literally means "Lusatian Border Dyke".
References
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Natural regions of Saxony
Geography of Lusatia