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  2. Luxembourg Sandstone - Wikipedia

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    The Luxembourg Sandstone (French: Grès de Luxembourg) is a geologic formation in Luxembourg. It exists along the eastern margin of the Paris Basin. Sandstone units continuous with the Luxembourg Sandstone also occur in France. It is Early Jurassic in age. It predominantly outcrops in a belt extending through south-central Luxembourg.

  3. Geology of Luxembourg - Wikipedia

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    Lower Jurassic sandstone of the Grès de Luxembourg Formation near Waldhof. The geology of Luxembourg is divided into two geologic regions: Rheinisches Schiefergeblige in the north, extending into the Ardennes region in Belgium, and the Oesling (also known as Islek) Zone to the north of Ettelbruck.

  4. List of World Heritage Sites in Luxembourg - Wikipedia

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    City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications: Luxembourg City: 1994 699; iv (cultural) The city developed around a fortress built in the 10th century on an almost inaccessible rock. Due to its strategic location, it passed among great European powers several times, with the fortifications being constantly upgraded.

  5. Luxembourg Plateau - Wikipedia

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    The Luxembourg plateau is a large Early Jurassic sandstone plateau in south-central Luxembourg. [1] Lying mostly between 300 metres (980 ft) and 400 metres (1,300 ft), [ 1 ] it is the dominant part of the Gutland region.

  6. History of Luxembourg - Wikipedia

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    The history of Luxembourg properly began with the construction of Luxembourg Castle in the High Middle Ages. It was Siegfried I , count of Ardennes who traded some of his ancestral lands with the monks of the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier in 963 for an ancient, supposedly Roman, fort named Lucilinburhuc , commonly translated as "little castle ...

  7. German-Luxembourg Nature Park - Wikipedia

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    The German-Luxembourg Nature Park (German: Deutsch-Luxemburgische Naturpark) is a cross-border nature park, which was established on 17 April 1964 by state treaty between the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It thus became the first cross-border nature park in Western Europe. [1]

  8. Geography of Luxembourg - Wikipedia

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    Trees at Birtrange Castle in Luxembourg. Luxembourg's flora is characterized by the country's location at the border between the Atlantic-European and Central-European climate zones. In the north, beech and oak trees are plentiful. The oak trees can grow up to 30–45 m (98–148 ft), with a diameter of 1.2–2.4 m (3.9–7.9 ft).

  9. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Luxembourg

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