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landform Definition

land·form (-fôrm′)

noun

any topographic feature on the earth's surface, as a plain, valley, hill, etc., caused by erosion, sedimentation, or movement

landform Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • undulate: There are some loughs on parts of the valley floor, particularly in areas where the valley floor has a slightly undulating landform.
  • associate: The expeditions aim to introduce undergraduates to contemporary glaciers and the landforms associated with them.
  • create: Our local area, for example, is dominated by landforms created in glacial conditions.
  • produce: Drumlins Drumlins represent one of the best known landforms produced by glaciers.
  • study: Our objective was to study the odd landforms developed on the gypsum - deep tubes dissolved into the surface.

Adjective modifier

  • periglacial: The range, variety and location of periglacial landforms ( to include patterned ground ) and their impact on human activity.
  • deglacial: An intermittently stagnant ice front has left a classic series of deglacial landforms around the Lough Fea area.
  • depositional: The range, variety and location of depositional landforms and their impact on human activity.
  • fluvial: Relating fluvial processes ( erosion, transport and deposition ) to the formation of fluvial landforms.
  • glacial: We walked up to Easedale Tarn to look at glacial landforms left from the last ice age.
  • streamlined: Streamlined landforms along the margins of the valley and glacially molded bedforms indicate ice advance and episodes of fast ice flow from the west.

Modifies a noun

  • assemblage: The landform assemblage is comparable to that at Bouldnor and Burnt Wood, but smaller in scale.
  • evolution: Summary of research Bedrock rivers plays a fundamental role in landscape history by setting the boundary conditions for the landform evolution.
  • pattern: Landform patterns record the general eastward retreat of ice into the Lough Neagh lowlands toward the end of the last deglacial cycle.

Preposition: along

  • margin: Streamlined landforms along the margins of the valley and glacially molded bedforms indicate ice advance and episodes of fast ice flow from the west.

Preposition: in

  • area: An overview is provided of the processes and landforms in the study area.

Noun used with modifier

  • karst: All these karst landforms are the result of long term geomorphological processes typical of this temperate climatic zone.
  • drumlin: There are often small woodlands on the ends of the drumlins and dense hedgerows around the base, giving visual emphasis to drumlin landforms.
  • valley: Hertfordshire County Council, LA 076678, 2001 LANDSCAPE CHARACTER Pastoral farmland within a flat valley landform.
  • desert: This lecture describes the action of wind upon desert sediments and the resultant desert landforms.