Sentence examples for common landform from inspiring English sources

A general purpose geomorphometric map — an interpreted map of topography — is obtained by generalizing allgeomorphons to a small number of the most common landform elements.

Eskers are the casts of ice-walled channels and are a common landform within the footprint of the last Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheets.

Cliff and shore platforms are the most common landform types but even these display significant variations in morphology depending on sea-level history, tidal range, the relative contributions of marine and subaerial processes, and geological properties of the rock.

Oxbow lakes are common landforms in meandering river floodplains.

Alluvial fans are one of the most common landforms in intermontane desert regions.

The Italian badlands, or "calanchi", are common landforms in Mediterranean areas including central and southern Italy.

Rockglaciers — permafrost creep features on mountain slopes — are common landforms in high mountain areas.

In a general context, the study shows that crooked glacier tongues are common landforms in other mountain regions and mainly intrinsic to debris-covered glaciers.

Clay pans (playas) are common landforms of semi-arid and arid desert regions ranging in size from 1 to 2 km2 to greater than 10,000 km2.

Thermal contraction crack polygons and scalloped depressions, two of the most common landforms found in Utopia Planitia, Mars, have previously been linked to the presence of ice-rich deposits in the subsurface.

The present chapter discusses common landforms on Precambrian shields and in the lower ranges of Alpine fold belts (below 3000 meters) in the humid and seasonally dry tropics.