Keuper Uplands

The following regions belong to the Keuper Uplands (from southwest to northeast): the Kleiner Heuberg, Rammert, Schönbuch, Glemswald, Stromberg and Heuchelberg, Schurwald and Welzheim Forest, Swabian-Franconian Forest, Franconian Heights, Steigerwald and Hassberge.

The southwesternmost Keuper escarpment in the area of the Baar does not have its own name because of its small size.

The Keuper Uplands are divided into three natural region major unit groups which, in turn, are subdivided into major units, shown underneath in each case with three-figure index numbers (units of which only small areas lie on keuper are in italics) and ridges that are orographically separated from one another (basins and ridges on the perimeters have been omitted):[1] Apart from the Stromber and Heuchelberg, which lie north of Schönbuch and Glemswald and outside the Keuper-Lias landscapes in the muschelkalk dominated Gäue, the landscapes in the above list along the Albtrauf, from which they are separated by the lias dominated forelands, are oriented in a northeasterly direction.

The landscape is characterised by the rock - keuper that gives it its name and is the uppermost and youngest lithostratigraphic group of the Germanic Trias.

Such klingen occur in the petrographically harder sandstone beds of the keuper, for example in the Stubensandstein.