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land·form

(lănd′fôrm′)

One of the features that make up the earth's surface, such as a plain, mountain, or valley.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

landform

(ˈlændˌfɔːm)

(Geological Science) geology any natural feature of the earth's surface, such as valleys and mountains

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land•form

(ˈlændˌfɔrm)

n.

a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains and mountains to minor features such as hills and valleys.

[1890–95]

land·form

(lănd′fôrm′)

Any recognizable, naturally formed feature on the Earth's surface. Landforms have a characteristic shape and can include such large features as plains, plateaus, mountains, and valleys, as well as smaller features such as hills, eskers, and canyons.

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landform

A distinctive natural configuration of the land surface.

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KIERNAN, K., 1997, The Conservation of Landforms of Coastal Origin: Conserving Tasmania's Geodiversity and Geoheritage, Forest Practices Unit, Hobart, Tasmania, 273 p.

Geodiversity audit and action plan for upper catchment area of Gersa River (Rodnei Mountains, Bistrita-Nasaud County, Romania)/Auditul geodiversitatii si planul de actiune pentru bazinul superior al raului gersa (Muntii Rodnei, Judetul Bistrita Nasaud, Romania)/ Auditoria de la geodiversidad y el plan de accion para la cuenca alta del Rio Gersa (Montansa Rodnei, Departamento Bistri a-Nasaud, Romania)

Williamson acknowledges his argument may strike many as "old-fashioned," by which he means his focus on soil and landforms. Unfortunately, his diagnosis is a bit too true but in perhaps unintended ways.

Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England: Time and Topography

[15] McNab WH (1989) Terrain shape index: quantifying effect of minor landforms on tree height.

Statistical evaluation of some topographic indices in ecological researches (case study in west Azerbaijan, Iran)

Learn about these and other landforms such as mountains, canyons and plains.

Introducing Landforms

It is comprised of six sections: Birth (the planet's place in the universe and the emergence of its life forms); Fire (the earth's core and its plates); Land (rocks, minerals, landforms and biomes), Air (Earth's atmosphere, climate and weather); Water (oceans and seas, the marine environment, rivers, wetlands and swamps, and landlocked water); and Humans (our habitats, use of natural resources and impact on the planet).

The big book of everywhere

The key-stone of the analysis of the landforms is the geomorphological map, where the mapped elements are classified according to a geomorphological legend.

Selected landforms and their significance in the analysis of the slope origin in the Losenice River Valley, Sumava Mts

Landforms based on landscape toposequence (or topographic profile) in a catchment have been used to define landscape features to aid in soil and land capability mapping (e.g.

Delineating soil landscape facets from digital elevation models using compound topographic index in a geographic information system

The objectives of our study were to characterize field-scale variations of STP and DPS and relate these to topographic characteristics within eight small watersheds developed on glaciated landforms in Alberta, Canada.

Predictors of field-scale variation of soil phosphorus

There are some excellent chapters, such as 7, 9, 11, and 13, dealing with glacial sediments/glacial landforms, periglacial processes and forms, fluvial landforms, coastal processes, and coastal landforms.

Geomorphology: A Canadian Perspective

These landforms served as natural "speed bumps." They reduced the lethal surge tide of past hurricanes and made New Orleans inhabitable in the first place.

New Orleans abandoned again

Last summer, geologists from the University of Alberta trekked to Canada's remote Melville Island to study its landforms. A whopping 966 kilometers (600 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, the island is outside grizzlies' traditional range on the North American mainland.