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Why is there a desert in Soest?

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Why is there a desert in Soest?

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its no desert, but it looks like one.. its sand brought to Soest during an ice-age, the tree's don't really grow on the sandy pieces, so there is an open plain of all sand (but it sure does look a lot like the Sahara) Source(s): I live in Soest (****.. don't tell anyone, its so embaracing)

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Soest in Germany or Soest in the Netherlands......?Either way I did not think that one of them has a desert...... Or maybe you are thinking of yet another Soest...?........................ look at that you learn something new every day ....give dutchcuti the points..........
De Soesterduinen zijn een zandverstuiving in de gemeente Soest die deel uitmaakt van de Utrechtse Heuvelrug. De proviciale weg van Soest naar Soesterberg splitst de Soesterduinen in de Lange en Korte Duinen.

In de laatste ijstijd is het zand van de duinen afgezet door de wind. Toen het ijs zich terugtrok ontstonden bossen en heidevelden. Door het plaggen van de heide en overbegrazing raakte de grond kaal en begon het zand te stuiven. Door de introductie van kunstmest werd minder geplagd, en heroverde de bossen terrein. Tegenwoordig is speciaal beheer nodig om het stuifzand in de Soesterduinen te behouden, zoals het verwijderen van vegetatie.

In 1997 zijn de Soesterduinen tot aardkundig monument verklaard.

well this is what i could find on it and i could only find it in dutch, but basicly where it comes down to is that it happened in the iceage due to the dunes and the wind, after awhile a forest started to create it self around it, now a days we have to keep it from being vegetated by other plants and trees so that we keep the desert as you call it, we call it dunes. it's on the geograficmonument list of the world
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yes, but it is small.

Go to Kootwijk (kootwijkerzand). That one is bigger.
A desert in Soest? Never heard of it.