EASTERN RIVER AREA

In the eastern part of the river area, the flow speed is still high enough to carry coarse material (sand and gravel). Sand was deposited along the rivers during the annual floods, creating embankments: low sand ridges of a few tens to hundreds of meters wide. On the banks are the river dikes and the mostly old villages. Due to their long history of habitation, their relative height and the sandy composition of the subsoil, embankments are relatively varied landscapes including fields and orchards.
Further away from the river, in the basins, the water remained the longest after a flood. Here, finer material (clay particles) could settle. The heavy river clay in the basins is poorly permeable to water and therefore unsuitable for agriculture. Today you will mainly find meadows and in several places also swamp forests.
Because rivers constantly changed their course in the past, a tangle of stream ridges arose in the basins (filled abandoned river courses with the associated embankments), as a result of which the basins in the eastern part of the river area are small.

Accompanying the photo: Fruit cultivation on stream ridge

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