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The machair on Berneray, Outer Hebrides Machair east of Uig Bay, Lewis The machair towards West beach, Isle of Berneray, Outer Hebrides. A machair (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈmaxɪɾʲ]; sometimes machar in English) is a fertile low-lying grassy plain found on part of the northwest coastlines of Ireland and Scotland, in particular the Outer Hebrides.
Machair – Fertile low-lying grassy plain; Marine terrace – Emergent coastal landform; Mid-ocean ridge – Basaltic underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonic spreading; Oceanic basin – Geologic basin under the sea; Oceanic plateau – Relatively flat submarine region that rises well above the level of the ambient seabed
The Pannonian Plain is another steppe region in Central Europe, centered in Hungary but also including portions of Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. Another large steppe area is located in the central United States, western Canada and the northern part of Mexico.
In Quechua, "huaylla" means grassy and "bamba" means plain, e.g. "grassy plain." "Bamba" is a variation of the word "pampa." See also. Pilanku; Qulluta; References
Nachusa Grasslands, spring 2016 Setaria pumila, a species of Poaceae (the dominant plant family in grasslands). A grassland is an area where the vegetation is dominated by grasses ().
The difference between a flood plain and an alluvial plain is: a flood plain represents areas experiencing flooding fairly regularly in the present or recently, whereas an alluvial plain includes areas where a flood plain is now and used to be, or areas which only experience flooding a few times a century. [8] Chengdu Plain, Sichuan
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In parts of South America, a vast, fertile, grassy plain; or the temperate lowland region encompassing these plains. pan Any shallow, generally rounded basin or hollow, which may seasonally capture and hold water from rainfall or snowmelt, especially one occurring in an arid or semi-arid region; more specifically, the flat central part of such ...