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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for example, Yucca Flat or Henninger Flats. Flat is also used to describe other level geographic areas as mud flats or salt flats. Glade – Open area within...
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A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain...
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often referred to as "flats" or "flat shoes" Racing flats, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race Flat (landform), a relatively level area...
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Tableland (redirect from Table (landform))
A tableland is an area containing elevated landforms characterized by a distinct, flat, nearly level, or gently undulating surface. They often exhibit...
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Alluvial plain (category Fluvial landforms)
An alluvial plain is a plain (an essentially flat landform) created by the deposition of sediment over a long period by one or more rivers coming from...
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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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Limestone pavement (category Erosion landforms)
A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial pavement. The...
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Mesa (category Erosion landforms)
Plateau, the term mesa applies exclusively to the landforms built of flat-lying strata. Instead, flat-topped plateaus are specifically known as tablelands...
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Butte (category Tables (landform))
with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands. The word butte comes...
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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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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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Plain (redirect from Plain (landform))
coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands. Plains are one of the major landforms on earth, being present on all continents and covering more than one-third...
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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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Inselberg (redirect from Residual (landform))
environmental feature Table (landform) – Raised landform with a flat topPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Tuya – Flat-topped, steep-sided...
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Alkali sink (redirect from Alkali flat ecosystem)
a North American desert vegetation type (biome) characteristic of that landform. Plants that tolerate the extreme salt concentrations are known as halophytes...
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Makgadikgadi Pan (redirect from Botswana salt flat)
American Geographers 74(2): pp. 298–307, page 299 Cooke, H. J. (1980) "Landform evolution in the context of climatic change and neo-tectonism in the Middle...
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Tor (rock formation) (redirect from Tor (landform))
weathering Inselberg – Isolated, steep rock hill on relatively flat terrain Nubbin (landform) – Small hill of bedrock with rounded residual blocks List of...
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locations. The typical sequence of landforms created by the sea is described as a "littoral series". The littoral series of a flat coast starts in the permanently...
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resembling a riding saddle or a mountain pass between two peaks forming a landform saddle. See the center image point '-C-' in the topographical map image...
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ዐምባ āmbā, Tigrinya: እምባ imbā) is a characteristic landform in Ethiopia. It is a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of villages, wells...
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Arête (redirect from Arete (landform))
Lake District Trionite (The Saws), Rila mountain, Bulgaria Glacial landform – Landform created by the action of glaciers "English pronunciation of arête"...
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Dry lake (redirect from Alkali Flat)
Australian landforms: understanding a low, flat, arid and old landscape. Rosenberg Publishing. Pp. 227, 235, 237, 239. ISBN 1 877058 32 7 "Uyuni Salt Flat" Encyclopædia...
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Spring Creek Flat is a flat mostly in White Pine County, Nevada; but also partly in Juab County, Utah and still less in Tooele County, Utah. Its elevation...
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terraces of the hill slopes and the very small alluvial plain of the flat landform created by the deposition of sediment near river areas because of this...
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furniture with a flat surface and one or more legs Table (information), a data arrangement with rows and columns Table (landform), a flat area of land Table...
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Yosemite National Park (redirect from Crane Flat Campground)
interest in it. Muir was one of the first to theorize that the major landforms in Yosemite Valley were created by alpine glaciers, bucking established...
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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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