Just over 28 % of Austria is moderately hilly or flat : the Northern Alpine Foreland, which includes the Danube Valley; the lowlands and hilly regions in northeastern and eastern Austria, which include the Danube Basin; and the rolling hills and lowlands of the Southeastern Alpine Foreland.
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Just over 28 % of Austria is moderately hilly or flat : the Northern Alpine Foreland, which includes the Danube Valley; the lowlands and hilly regions in northeastern and eastern Austria, which include the Danube Basin; and the rolling hills and lowlands of the Southeastern Alpine Foreland.
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Many secondary landscape regions only have one major unit group ( Mecklenburg Coastal Lowland, Harz, Thuringian Basin, Upper Main-Upper Palatine Hills, Southern Alpine Foreland ), others group well-known major regions together ( Rhenish Massif, South German Scarplands ); others are entirely new groupings.
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These valleys, created by glacial meltwaters, do not appear in the Alpine Foreland as they do, for example, in North Germany because their function was assumed by the great rivers that already existed in the region-the Danube, Rhine, Rh�ne and Po-or their tributaries, which transported away the meltwaters of the glaciers.
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In contrast to the Helvetic Domain and the Flysch Zone that still mostly have a low mountain character ( " German : " ) although they are morphologically clearly set apart from the Alpine foreland, the Northern Limestone Alps form high mountains ( " German : " ) of well over 2, 000 metres above sea level.
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The beginning of the Riss ice age, according to the 2002 Stratigraphic Table of Germany, was the end of the Holstein interglacial ( known as the Mindel-Riss interglacial in the Alpine Foreland and corresponding to the " Samerbe ", " Thalgut ", " Praclaux " and " La C�te " ).
