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...

orientation, rock exposure, and soil type. Landforms organized by the processes that create them. Aeolian landform – Landforms produced by action of the winds include:...

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...

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...

exhibiting recognizable lava flows, volcanic cones, and other volcanic landforms. This type of volcanic landscape is extremely rough and difficult to traverse...

A continent is any of several large geographical regions. Continents are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria. A continent...

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...

Landforms related to rivers and other watercourses include: Channel (geography) – Narrow body of water Confluence – Meeting of two or more bodies of flowing...

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...

amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic: coire, meaning a pot or cauldron) and...

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...

Equivalents of Karst Terms. UNESCO, Paris 1972. Sweeting (1973), Karst Landforms, selected glossary, compiled by K. Addison, Sweeting, M. M., London 1973...

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...

A dale is a valley, especially an open, gently-sloping ground between low hills with a stream flowing through it. It is used most frequently in the North...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A carr is a type of waterlogged wooded terrain that, typically, represents a succession stage between the original reedy marsh and the likely eventual...

"Local-Scale geomorphology – process systems and landforms". Introducing Geomorphology: A Guide to Landforms and Processes. Dunedin Academic Press, 2012,...

A tindar is a ridge created by subglacial volcanism. It can contain pillow lava, pillow breccia, hyalotuff, hyaloclastite. Examples are Skefilfjall, Kálfstindar...

The term Luch (plural: Luche) is German and refers to an area of originally expansive, marshy or boggy lowland in northeast Germany, especially in the...

A grinde (plural: grinden) is an almost treeless area of wet heathland found on the rounded bunter sandstone ridges of the Northern Black Forest in Germany...

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...

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...

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...

known as glaciated valley – Valleys formed by glacial scouring Gully – Landform created by running water and/or mass movement eroding sharply into soil...

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...

Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally, upland refers to...

They typically have a U-shaped cross-section and are characteristic landforms of mountain areas where glaciation has occurred or continues to take place...