Glossary of landform elements
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Date created:
2020-07-06
Date modified:
2020-07-14
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Definition
The landform element glossary aims to provide an adequate, concise set of names for types of landform element.
Hierarchy
expand all- Alcove
- Backplain
- Bank (stream bank)
- Bar (stream bar)
- Barchan dune
- Beach
- Beach ridge
- Bench
- Berm
- Blow-out
- Breakaway
- Channel bench
- Cirque
- Clay plain
- Cliff
- Cliff-footslope
- Closed depression
- Collapse doline
- Cone (volcanic)
- Crater
- Cut face
- Cut-over surface
- Dam
- Deflation basin
- Drainage depression
- Dune
- Dune footslope
- Dunecrest
- Duneslope
- Embankment
- Estuary
- Fan
- Fill-top
- Flat
- Flood-out
- Footslope
- Foredune
- Gorge
- Gully
- Hill footslope
- Hillcrest
- Hillslope
- Hummocky (weakly oriented) dune
- Inselberg/tor
- Interdune corridor
- Intertidal flat
- Lagoon
- Lake
- Landslide
- Levee
- Limestone plain
- Linear or longitudinal (seif) dune
- Lunette
- Maar
- Mound
- Open depression
- Ox-bow
- Parabolic dune
- Pediment
- Pit
- Plain
- Playa
- Prior stream
- Reef flat
- Residual rise
- Ridge
- Risecrest
- Riseslope
- Rock flat
- Rock outcrop (on hill)
- Rock outcrop (on plain)
- Rock platform
- Saltlake
- Sandy plain
- Scald
- Scarp
- Scarp-footslope
- Scroll
- Scroll plain
- Solution doline
- Stony plain
- Stream bed
- Stream channel
- Summit surface
- Supratidal flat
- Swale
- Swamp
- Talus
- Terrace flat
- Terrace plain
- Tidal creek
- Tidal flat
- Tor
- Trench
- Tumulus
- Valley flat
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editorialNote
Some values that do not exist in the Yellow Book have been added to the collection such as Clay plain, Closed depression and Flat. See https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/Publications/vegetation_survey_manual.pdf
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