Garage

Japanese: garigue

…They are often paleosols formed during the warm periods of the Tertiary or Pleistocene. They are widespread in the karst regions of the Mediterranean climate, forming a very poor vegetation landscape consisting of dwarf shrubs called garigues, and are used for cultivating grapes and olives, or for grazing sheep and goats. The brown soils derived from carbonate rocks are classified as terra fusca. …

From France

...rain begins in autumn when this high pressure weakens and a low pressure system moves into the valley between the Siberian high pressure system. When it rains, it is heavy, digs a channel, and becomes a torrent that washes away the topsoil. As a result, forests do not grow, and instead there are sparse forests of low shrubs that can withstand the summer dryness, such as plant communities called maquis and thickets of shrubs called garigues, and most cultivated land is irrigated. Winters are generally warm, but when a low pressure system coming from the west develops over the Mediterranean, cold north winds blow from the inland high pressure system into the Rhône Valley.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "garigue" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…第三紀あるいは更新世の温暖期に形成された古土壌である場合が多い。地中海性気候地域のカルスト地帯に広く分布し，ガリグgarigueとよばれる矮性（わいせい）低木群系からなるきわめて貧弱な植生景観を構成し，ブドウ，オリーブの栽培地あるいはヒツジやヤギの放牧地となっている。なお炭酸塩質岩石に由来する褐色の土壌はテラ･フスカterra fuscaとして区別されている。…

【フランス】より

…雨はこの高気圧が弱まり，シベリア高気圧との間の谷間に低気圧が進んでくる秋からで，降るときは強く，溝をうがち奔流となって表土を押し流す。そのため森林は育たず，マキmaquisと呼ばれる植物群落やガリグgarigueと呼ばれる灌木のやぶなど夏の乾燥に耐える低木の疎林となり，耕地は灌漑されるものが多い。冬は一般に温暖であるが，西からやってくる低気圧が地中海上で発達すると，内陸の高気圧からローヌ河谷に向かって寒い北風が吹き込む。…

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