Serengeti over 80 percent of the Serengeti. The southeastern area lies in the rain shadow of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area's highlands and is composed of shortgrass treeless plains with abundant small dicots. Soils are high in nutrients, overlying a shallow calcareous hardpan due to natrocarbonatite eruptions from Ol Doinyo Lengai. A gradient of soil depth northwestward across the plains results in changes in the herbaceous community and taller grass. About west, acacia woodlands appear suddenly and stretch west to Lake Victoria and north to the Loita Plains, north of the Maasai Mara National Reserve. The sixteen acacia species vary over this
Sermon on the Plain a throng of people had gathered. After curing those with "unclean spirits" (see also demonic possession), Jesus began what is now called the Sermon on the Plain. Notable messages in the Sermon include: In after Jesus had said everything he had to say to the crowd, he went to Capernaum, which in Lukan chronology he had not visited since . Sermon on the Plain In Christianity, the Sermon on the Plain refers to a set of teachings by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, in . This sermon may be compared to the longer Sermon on the Mount in the