landform
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.
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