The Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains is a major natural region in southwest Germany

Germany

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 and includes the southwesternmost part of the Keuper Uplands, which is bordered immediately to the north by the Swabian Jura.

Natural regions

The Swabian Keuper lands are divided into three natural region

Natural region

A Natural region is one which is distinguished by its natural features of geography and usually more important, geology. The natural ecology of the region is likely to be significant but one of these factors tends to influence the others....

al groups and their 3-figure major units which are given 3-figure numbers:

• 10 (=D58) Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains
  • 100 Foreland of the western Swabian Jura (Vorland der mittleren Schwäbischen Alb)
  • 101 Foreland of the central Swabian Jura (Vorland der mittleren Schwäbischen Alb)
  • 102 Foreland of the eastern Swabian Jura (Vorland der östlichen Schwäbischen Alb)
  • 103 Nördlinger Ries
  • 104 Schönbuch and Glemswald
    • Rammert
    • Schönbuch
      Schönbuch
      The Schönbuch is an almost completely wooded area south west of Stuttgart and part of the Southern German Escarpment Landscape . In 1972 the centre zone of the Schönbuch became the first natural park in Baden-Württemberg...
      
      
    • Glemswald
  • 105 Stuttgart Bay
  • 106 Filder
  • 107 Schurwald
    Schurwald
    The Schurwald is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany, which at its highest point is 513.2 m above sea level.It is one of the most important Recreation areas for the Stuttgart area...
    
     and Welzheim Forest
    • Schurwald
      Schurwald
      The Schurwald is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany, which at its highest point is 513.2 m above sea level.It is one of the most important Recreation areas for the Stuttgart area...
      
      
    • Lower Rems Valley
    • Welzheim Forest
  • 108 Swabian-Franconian Uplands
    • Heilbronn Hills
    • Löwenstein Hills
    • Mainhardt Forest
    • Waldenburg Hills
    • Murrhard Forest
    • Limpurg Hills
    • Ellwangen Hills
    • Virngrund

Sources

• BfN landscape fact file for Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria - all landscapes with a five-digit number beginning with "10" belong to the Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains; the first three digits stand for the major unit.