As a result of the high relative relief, the steep slopes and the relatively uniform geological and geomorphological conditions, the landslides tend to be very large and to occur in groups.
Asia has the highest average elevation of the continents and contains the greatest relative relief.
The essential criteria for plateaus are low relative relief and some altitude.
These badland features are high relative relief forms exhibiting a high drainage density and steep slopes, with slope angles typically in excess of 35°.
That was never going to be the lead headline on a night that brought delight to Nigel Farage, muted disappointment to Ed Miliband, relative relief to David Cameron, and further kicks to the groin of Nick Clegg.
It could, one imagines, be transformed without ado into temporary housing for the victims of a major disaster, so settling down to a James Franco movie felt like a relative relief, though not by much.
It extends over 150 km east west, being of low relative relief, broken along faults, tilted westwards in the west and eastwards in the east, and having a maximum elevation of ca. 2 km in central Nuussuaq and Disko.
Inselbergs with a relative relief of < 100 m and in areas of lower absolute relief experienced the strongest glacial modification, where the strongest glacial modification can result in lateral erosion of the inselberg flanks.
As an alternative to geostatistical modeling, we characterized the hydrology of a semi-arid landscape in southeastern Washington state, USA, by coupling spatial patterns identified in the distributions of relative relief and vegetation with the influence each has on soil moisture storage and evapotranspiration at the appropriate scale.
From this longer-term/larger-scale perspective, it is argued that extrinsic changes to relative relief can be driven by base-level changes (tectonically, isostatically or eustatically induced), in which case the continuity and linkages of 'information' within the system are modified by effects which move up through the system ('bottom-up' control).
