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CONFIGURATION.
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feature is due to a series of faults running in the said direction, whose
continuations can furthermore be traced on the island of Bornholm. These
faults have brought about a depression of the deposits belonging
to the Silurian, Rhæt-Lias and Cretaceous Systems, so that, in our times,
they form extensive plains at the foot of the ridges of primitive röck.
The ridges subdivide the plains of Skåne into separate sections. North
of Linderödsåsen the Kristianstad Plain stretches up towards the boundary
of Småland; south of that plain and east of Romeleklint is österslätt
(East Plain) which, passes, in the hillier tracts round Ystad, into the
very fertile Söderslätt (South Plain), which is perhaps the part of the
whole of Sweden most richly favoured by nature for agricultural
production; then the plain continues northwards as far as to Skelderviken on
The Plains of Western Shane.
The general character of the plains is somewhat varied. In the
neighbourhood of Skelderviken and in that of Kristianstad, where in each case
there is a covering of recent marine deposits, the surface for large areas
is almost perfectly level; in the southern districts there are now
extensive, undulating and shallow basins, separated from each other by low
ranges of hills, and now, as for instance to the South and South-West of
Romeleklint, a very hilly country, where the morainic material has been
heaped up into heights and ridges .to an altitude of twenty meters or so
above the intervening depressions, which are often without any outlet.
The last-mentioned district is the most extensively wooded tract in
south-em Skåne; the large beech-woods lend to the scenery an attractiveness
which is heightened by the luxuriant verdure of the meadows and the
limpid waters of the lakes. The districts lying at the foot of the slopes
of Söderåsen, from Ringsjön to the coal-producing districts round
Billesholm and Bjuv, also present in parts scenes of a similar character. On
the other hand, in the flatter part of the plains, the woods are less
extensive and the view across the vast stretches of cultivated land is broken
only by occasional farms with their surrounding plantations, and by long
lines of stone fences and banks of willow. The contrast of this district to
the rest of Sweden is further emphasized by the total difference that exists
in the style of building and in the materials used. Wooden houses are
practically unknown in Skåne, brick, granite and clay having taken the
place of timber.
The Coasts, too, of Skåne are of quite a different character to those of
the rest of Sweden. The shores of Skåne, Gottland. South Halland, and
Öland are the only parts of the Swedish sea-board not fringed with islets.
The fundamental röck, with its almost horizontal strata, runs into the
sea at a gentle slope, the shore being shallow and open. Upon the eastern
and southern coasts of Skåne the waves beat unimpeded and, aided by
the wind, thejr have formed a series of sand-dunes which give the
landscape a picturesque appearance. On the shores of the Sound, where the
force of the waves is less considerable, wind and stream have spread a
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