Geest

For other uses, see Geest (disambiguation).
A geest landscape near Dörpling in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
The Osterheide, a heath landscape on geest near Schneverdingen on the Lüneburg Heath, Germany

Geest (German pronunciation: [ɡeːst], Dutch: geestgrond [ˈɣeːstxrɔnt], Danish: gest [ˈke̝ˀst]) is a type of landform, slightly raised above the surrounding countryside, that occurs on the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark. It is a landscape of sandy and gravelly soils formed as a glacial outwash plain and now usually mantled by a heathland vegetation on the glacial deposits left behind after the last ice age during the Pleistocene epoch.[1]

  1. ^ Whittow, John (1984). Dictionary of Physical Geography. London: Penguin, p. 214. ISBN 0-14-051094-X.