Sentence examples for important landforms from inspiring English sources

The most important landforms on Mercury for gaining insight into the planet's otherwise largely unseen interior workings have been its hundreds of lobate scarps.

Important landforms are valley fills, channels, levee, back swamp, channel, point bar of fluvial and active beach, paleo-beach ridges, back water and tidal flats, spits, mangrove swamps of marine origin (Rengamannar and Pradhan 1961; Nageswara Rao et al. 2005).

Rock Glaciers are important landforms formed by active permafrost and defined as "an accumulation of angular rock debris that contains either interstitial ice or an ice core and shows evidence of movement through creep and deformation of the ice-part".

We chose three scopes: an area that lies in a young orogenic belt like Japan Californiaan, arearea totally different from Japan in geological and climate settings (Australia), and glacier regions that are rare in Japan but very important for landform formation in high-latitude areas.

Reconstructions of the extent of Quaternary glaciations provide important knowledge of landform evolution on the Tibetan Plateau.

Furthermore, chemical weathering dissolves minerals and forms caverns within the rock walls of mesas and in amphitheaters and canyons, influencing escarpment retreat directly, despite mechanical processes being the most important factors controlling landform development.

The expression of surface and subsurface lithological and structural features, resulting in landforms has important control over the occurrence of natural resources.

Metrics such as height and volume quantifying the 3D morphology of landforms are important observations that reflect and constrain Earth surface processes.

The characteristics and activity of all these landforms are important parts of the GeoBasis program, providing improved knowledge about the development of modern high-arctic periglacial landscapes.

Situated directly to the east of the Jurassic Coast, Poole is a gateway town to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, which includes 153 km of the Dorset and east Devon coast important for its geology, landforms and rich fossil record.

Drainage density (Dd) is one of the important indicators of the landform element and provides a numerical measurement of landscape dissection and runoff potential (Chorley 1969).