Anoka Sand Plain is a sandy valley along the Mississippi River in Central Minnesota.
It is a subsection of the Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province of Minnesota and Northeast Iowa Glacial moraine complex.
[2] The terrain includes small dunes, kettle lakes, tunnel valleys, and sandy terraces produced by the Mississippi River and other major tributaries that feed into the Mississippi.
[1] The sand plain contains numerous habitats, such as the rare oak savanna, floodplain forest along the Mississippi River, deciduous forest, upland prairie, shallow wetlands, and heaths.
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