A landform is a land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. They may be natural or may be anthropogenic (caused or influenced...
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orientation, rock exposure, and soil type. Landforms organized by the processes that create them. Aeolian landform – Landforms produced by action of the winds include:...
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Glacial landforms are landforms created by the action of glaciers. Most of today's glacial landforms were created by the movement of large ice sheets during...
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the word for a rotisserie bar) or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores. It develops in places where re-entrance occurs...
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Shoal (redirect from Bar (landform))
Shoals can appear as a coastal landform in the sea, where they are classified as a type of ocean bank, or as fluvial landforms in rivers, streams, and lakes...
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Continent (redirect from Continental Landform)
A continent is any of several large geographical regions. Continents are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria. A continent...
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The Danxia landform (Chinese: 丹霞地貌; pinyin: dānxiá dìmào; Jyutping: daan1haa4 dei6maau6) is a set of landscapes found in southeast, southwest and northwest...
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will be kettle peatland.[clarification needed] Kettles are fluvioglacial landforms occurring as the result of blocks of ice calving from the front of a receding...
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is a landform made up of a mantle of loose blocks of rock moving downslope by creep in cold climates. Kurums differs from other similar landforms in that...
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Landforms related to rivers and other watercourses include: Channel (geography) – Narrow body of water Confluence – Meeting of two or more bodies of flowing...
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Aeolian landforms, or Eolian landforms, are produced by either the erosive or depositive action of wind. These features may be built up from sand or snow...
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Fluvioglacial landforms or glaciofluvial landforms are those that result from the associated erosion and deposition of sediments caused by glacial meltwater...
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Cirque (redirect from Cirque (landform))
amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic: coire, meaning a pot or cauldron) and...
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Volcano (redirect from Volcano (geological landform))
and gases (mainly steam and magmatic gases) can develop anywhere on the landform and may give rise to smaller cones such as Puʻu ʻŌʻō on a flank of Kīlauea...
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A tindar is a ridge created by subglacial volcanism. It can contain pillow lava, pillow breccia, hyalotuff, hyaloclastite. Examples are Skefilfjall, Kálfstindar...
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Islet (redirect from Rock (landform))
drawing an upper limit on its applicability. The World Landforms website says, "An islet landform is generally considered to be a rock or small island that...
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form in a similar way to castle koppies and bornhardts, and the three landforms can be seen as different expressions of the same phenomena. Nubbins occur...
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Highland (redirect from Highland (landform))
Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally, upland refers to...
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Erosion (redirect from Erosional landform)
"Local-Scale geomorphology – process systems and landforms". Introducing Geomorphology: A Guide to Landforms and Processes. Dunedin Academic Press, 2012,...
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exhibiting recognizable lava flows, volcanic cones, and other volcanic landforms. This type of volcanic landscape is extremely rough and difficult to traverse...
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Schlatt or Flatt is the Lower Saxon name for a heathland pond, an undrained body of water usually shallow, that is fed by surface water and is largely...
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Geography of Australia (redirect from Australian landform divisions)
north-east coast. The Australian continental landmass consists of six distinct landform divisions. These are: The Eastern Highlands—including the Great Dividing...
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A gat (Dutch: zeegat, gat; German: Seegatt, Seegat or diminutive Gatje) is an inshore channel or strait connecting coastal waters with the open sea or...
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Dune (redirect from Dune (landform))
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune...
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Arroyo (watercourse) (redirect from Wash (landform))
Catalan rambla, which stems from the Arabic rámla, "dry river". Similar landforms are referred to as wadi (in North Africa and Western Asia), chapp in the...
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Peninsula (redirect from Point (landform))
A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula...
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River delta (redirect from Delta (landform))
A river delta is a landform, archetypically triangular, created by the deposition of the sediments that are carried by the waters of a river, where the...
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observed to be more than 930 miles (1,500 km) long. Dunes are a dominant landform on Titan. Approximately 15-20% of the surface is covered by ergs with an...
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Equivalents of Karst Terms. UNESCO, Paris 1972. Sweeting (1973), Karst Landforms, selected glossary, compiled by K. Addison, Sweeting, M. M., London 1973...
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A gap is a geological formation that is a low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range. It may be called a col, notch...
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