The Veluwe is a stretch of high ground in the central part of the Netherlands, north of the river Rhine and south of the IJssel Meer, i.e. the former Zuiderzee, and the polders reclaimed from the latter. Geologically the area consists of three formations: 1. ridges which owe their origin to the pressure of the land ise, and which consist of sands deposited as river sediments in preglacial times; 2. a fluvioglacial formation; on some of these plains small but steep hills are found; 3. aeolian sediments: löss and cover-sands (cf. VINK, 1949); they were deposited in the late-glacial period.

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Stoutjesdijk, P. (1959). Heaths and Inland Dunes of the Veluwe. A study on some of the relations existing between vegetation, soil and microclimate. Mededelingen van het Botanisch Museum en Herbarium van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, 162(1), 1–96.