The Sauberge is a hill range up to 317 m above sea level (NN) in the Innerste Uplands in the district of Hildesheim in eastern Lower Saxony in Germany .
20-750: The wooded Sauberge is located in the centre of the northern part of the Innerste Uplands , a northeastern part of the Lower Saxon Hills , and borders on the historic Ambergau region. The hills extend east of the Hildesheim Forest , from Bad Salzdetfurth and the narrow valley of the Lamme to Derneburg . Hackenstedt is located in a broad valley east of the Bünte. A few kilometres east-northeast lies Holle and some distance away to
40-426: A cuesta is a hill or ridge with a gentle slope (backslope) on one side, and a steep slope (frontslope) on the other. The word is from Spanish : "flank or slope of a hill; hill, mount, sloping ground". In geology and geomorphology, cuesta refers specifically to an asymmetric ridge with a long and gentle backslope called a dip slope that conforms with the dip of a resistant stratum or strata, called caprock. The outcrop of
60-435: A gradational continuum. These landforms differ only on the steepness of their backslopes and the relative differences in the inclination of their backslopes and frontslopes. These differences depend upon whether the dip of the strata from which they have been eroded are either nearly vertical, moderately dipping, or gently dipping. Because of their gradational nature, the exact angle of the backslope that separates these landforms
80-496: A steep slope on the other. In geology, the term is more specifically applied to a ridge where a harder sedimentary rock overlies a softer layer, the whole being tilted somewhat from the horizontal. This results in a long and gentle backslope called a dip slope that conforms with the dip of resistant strata , called caprock . Where erosion has exposed the frontslope of this, a steep slope or escarpment occurs. The resulting terrain may be called scarpland . In general usage,
100-593: A thick layer of loess ; this includes the basin of the Ambergau. The fertile soils are heavily used for arable farming. Also part of the landscape are quarries or open-cast mines, nowadays largely closed and sometimes filled with water, in which Keuper sandstone was extracted during the Middle Ages . Eight ridges belong to the Innerste Uplands. They are, in order of height: The highest elevation in
120-870: Is a landscape region up to 359 m high and covering an area of over 900 km² in the northern part of the German Central Uplands . It lies within the eastern part of the Weser-Leine Uplands in Lower Saxony ( Germany ). The Innerste Uplands gets its name from the Innerste , a tributary of the River Leine . The Innerste Uplands cover the catchment area of the Innerste southeast of Hildesheim and southwest to south of Salzgitter as far as Goslar and Seesen on
140-456: Is arbitrary and some differences in the specific angles used to define these landforms occur in the scientific literature. It also can be difficult to sharply distinguish immediately adjacent members of this series of landforms because of their gradational nature. In North America , two well-known cuestas in western/central New York and southern Ontario are the Onondaga escarpment and
160-668: Is the most coast-ward cuesta, which has surface expression with the Bordes-Oakville escarpment, on the northwest side and a low ridge on the eastern boundary, called the Reynosa Cuesta, where the deposits dip below later Pliocene - Pleistocene deposits of the Willis and Lissie Formations. Cuestas have less dramatic expression in the United Kingdom, with two notable examples being the northwest-facing escarpment of
180-954: The Cretaceous chalk White Horse Hills and the similarly aligned escarpment of the Jurassic limestones in the Cotswolds , sometimes called the Cotswold Edge. Other examples include the Brecon Beacons, Wenlock Edge, the Chilterns, the North and South Downs and the Greensand Ridge of Kent and Surrey In continental Europe, the Swabian Alb offers particularly good views of cuestas in Jurassic rock. In France ,
200-670: The Niagara Escarpment . The dip of the Onondaga is about 40 feet per mile (about 7.6 m/km) to the south. In their most populated sections both escarpments edges face north, running roughly parallel to the southern Lake Ontario shoreline and, for the former, the Mohawk River. The Gulf Coastal Plain in Texas is punctuated by a series of cuestas that parallel the coast, as are most coastal plains. The Reynosa Plateau
220-412: The grey-headed woodpecker . A high density of breeding red kites live around the edges of the forest, especially in the east and south. Buzzard , goshawk , sparrowhawk and hobby also breed here. Amongst the more numerous songbirds are firecrest , crested tit , wood warbler , tree pipit and common crossbill . Innerste Uplands The Innerste Uplands ( German : Innerstebergland )
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#1732791686245240-498: The Innerste Uplands is the 359 m high Griesberg in the Hildesheim Forest. The rivers of the Innerste Uplands are: The following towns and villages lie within the Innerste Uplands or around its edge: 52°01′N 10°07′E / 52.017°N 10.117°E / 52.017; 10.117 Cuesta A cuesta ( Spanish for 'slope') is a hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, and
260-588: The boundary with neighbouring landscape regions (listed in alphabetical order): Giesen Hills , Hainberg , Harplage , Heber , Hildesheim Forest , Salzgitter Ridge (including the Lichtenberge ), Sauberge and Vorholz . Between these ridges run the following rivers : Innerste , Lamme , Neile and Nette together with their tributaries. The ridges of the Innerste Uplands are predominantly covered with deciduous forest , particularly beech woods. The rivers run through gently rolling depressions, covered with
280-433: The caprock forms a steeper or even cliff-like frontslope (escarpment), cutting through the dipping strata that comprise the cuesta. Cuestas are the expression of extensive outcrops of gently dipping strata, typically sedimentary strata, that consist of alternating beds of weak or loosely cemented strata, i.e. shale , mudstone , and marl and hard, well-lithified strata, i.e. sandstone and limestone . The surfaces of
300-535: The following towns and villages lie in and next to the Sauberge (in alphabetical order): The Sauberge, which reach their highest point at Hammerstein's Höhe ( 317 m above NN ) and are the source of several tributary streams for the river Lamme , are crisscrossed by numerous trails and forest tracks; but there are no roads across the unpopulated ridge. Part of the B ;243 federal road cuts through
320-409: The hard, erosion-resistant rock strata form the caprock of the backslope (dip-slope) of the cuesta, where erosion has preferentially removed the weaker strata. The frontslope of the cuesta consists of an escarpment that cuts across the bedding of the strata comprising it. Because of the gently dipping nature of the strata that forms a cuesta, a significant shift in horizontal location will take place as
340-422: The landscape is lowered by erosion . Because the slope of a cuesta dips in the same direction as the sedimentary strata, the dip angle of this bedding (θ) can be calculated by ( v / h ) = tan(θ) where v is equal to the vertical distance and h is equal to the horizontal distance perpendicular to the strike of the beds. Cuestas, homoclinal ridges , and hogbacks comprise a sequence of landforms that form
360-489: The middle of the hills, running between the villages of Wesseln and Nette. There is an eighteen-hole golf course on the northern slope of Hammerstein's Höhe. Access to the hills is restricted by a hunting preserve, where a herd of fallow deer is kept. The wild boar population is relatively large. Amongst the most important species of bird are the middle and lesser spotted woodpeckers , the European green woodpecker and
380-807: The northwestern edge of the Harz . To the north the area is bounded by the Hildesheim Börde , to the west by the Leine Uplands and to the southeast by the North Harz Foreland . Its central and southern areas are dominated by the Ambergau , a depression dissected by the Nette , a tributary of the Innerste. In and around the Innerste Uplands there are the following clearly defined ridges, most of which are cuestas and some of which lie on
400-447: The south-east is Bockenem ; a few individual districts of these town boroughs reach as far as the ridge. One kilometre to the north a stretch of the Innerste river flows past the Sauberge in an east-west direction. To the east the Nette runs past the hills from south to north. A few miles north-northeast is the ridge of Vorholz . The hills of the Sauberge range include the following (heights in metres above NN ): The territories of
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