Inland dune

Inland dunes are sand dunes that are found inland, away from coastal regions.

Within Central Europe, therefore, inland dunes exclude the belts of coastal dunes on the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts. Unlike their coastal cousins, inland dunes are aeolian formations of sand (dunes) transported and then deposited by wind. They were predominantly created under cold climatic, periglacial conditions at the end of the Weichselian and Würm ice ages, i.e. roughly more than 10,000 years ago. Their development during the post-glacial period has been heavily influenced by mankind.