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As agricultural terraces terraced (also former ) fields on slopes are referred to.

For agricultural use strongly inclined slopes arable plots were created parallel to the slope. By tillage, particularly slack parallel plowing always in one direction, the soil material has been accumulated on the underside of Use plot. This results in ground levels have been formed, so that the individual fields are clearly distinct from each other and form terraces, which are inclined slightly less than was the slope before. This effect is reinforced by the fact that immediately above the levels the terrain is almost flat so that abgespültes by natural denudation material is there also accumulated.

Also be aware scale terracing are referred to as agricultural terraces. These served with inclined slopes in particular the protection against soil erosion and better machinability.

The height of the terrain levels varied. Still got agricultural terraces from the high Middle Ages, which are under forest since the Wüstungsperiode the late Middle Ages, usually only reach heights of a few tens of centimeters. At loess grounds in Germany paragraphs of up to two meters can be achieved in China up to nine meters.

In the recent past, the terrain levels were frequently leveled land consolidation in order to obtain larger parcels. Received exterior steps, which can be seen in the landscape as forest belts, with the associated agricultural terraces are worth preserving from the perspective of nature conservation and historic preservation.

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