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Science - Geography / Geological feature | | French term or phrase: pelouse calcaire | | In a description of the countryside surrounding a gite in the Meuse region. Context: "Gîte situé dans un village typique par sa *pelouse calcaire* et ses nombreuses orchidées." Is this a limestone plateau? I presume that "pelouse" refers to the covering of grass that would develop on the plateau. Is there a word in English for "pelouse" in this context, please? Thanks in advance for any help! |
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| | limestone grassland | Explanation:
If you check the website below, you'll find a section on limestone pavements in which they talk about limestone grassland plants. Since this area of Meuse is fairly green, "limestone grassland" would perhaps be more appropriate. |
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16 mins confidence: mineral -rich sward (covered limestone)
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or a grassy sward covering the limestone base
which I've taken from the following reference describing the Curragh, rich grass fro horses - breeding and racing
A glacial formation, whose limestone base produces a mineral-rich sward said to nourish the thoroughbreds for which County Kildare is famous
The Curragh plain is the landscape most evocative of County Kildare, much referenced in song and poetry. A glacial formation, whose limestone base produces ...
kildare.ie/tourism/TouringRoutes/mid_kildare.asp - Cached
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KILDARE - COUNTY GEOLOGICAL SITE REPORT. NAME OF SITE. The Curragh ... crinoidal limestone. Turner (1948) recorded a coral and 8 brachiopod species from ...
www.gsi.ie/NR/rdonlyres/B3202350-DB24.../Kildare_section3_p...
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GEOLOGY HIGHLIGHTS: Chair of Kildare inlier, the Curragh glacial deposits, warm springs ... place, producing a variety of limestone (carbonate) sediments ...
www.geoschol.com/counties/KILDARE_GEOLOGY.pdf
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The Burren however, is karst limestone and has very sparse grass, most plants growing in the grikes or cracks in the limestone pavement
The Burren (Irish: Boireann, meaning "great rock", Boirinn, the dative form, is the modern form used by the Ordnance Survey) is a karst-landscape region in ...
History - Geography and scenery - Flora and fauna - Culture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burren - Cached - Similar
Welcome to the magical kingdom of the Burren, land of the fertile rock. Within this section you will find a full range of information on the various aspect ...
www.burrenbeo.com/burren-overview.aspx - Cached - Similar
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The Burren is famous for its orchids (and other flowers) but not for much grass!
| gallagy2
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5 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 limestone grassland
Explanation:
If you check the website below, you'll find a section on limestone pavements in which they talk about limestone grassland plants. Since this area of Meuse is fairly green, "limestone grassland" would perhaps be more appropriate.
Reference: http://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +3 calcareous grassland
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Just a try.
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Google lists over 500 websites with scholarly articles for "calcareous grassland" in combination with "Meuse." One website, for the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (http://bio.kuleuven.be/pleco/Publications/Publications.html ) lists four publications whose title contains the term.
– Demographic effects of extreme weather events on a short-lived calcareous grassland species: Stochastic Life Table Response Experiments (2010)
– Heat shock increases the reliability of a temperate calcareous grassland seed bank study (2008)
– Genetic diversity within and between remnant populations of the endangered calcareous grassland plant Globularia bisnagarica (2007)
– Seed bank composition of open and overgrown calcareous grassland soils-a case study from Southern Belgium (2007).
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