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Flashies 4 Finals - Sheet1 Flashcards

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Formed when weathering, together with mass collapse (and in arid areas with wind erosion), creates a tunnel through a slab of rock

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Rock arch (bridge) and window

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a wind erorded depression in the side of a cliff of a homogenous rock type

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alcoves and yardang window

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low, triangular-shaped accumulation of sediments deposited at the mouth of a valley

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Alluvial Fan

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Submarine, circular, steep sided holes which occur in coral reefs

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Blue Hole

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a compound alluvial fan where neighboring alluvial fans converge into a single apron of deposits against a slope

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Bajada

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6
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Shallow lakes found in bajadas

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Playas

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A steep-sided and flat-topped hill, built of flat lying soft rocks capped by a more resistant layer of sedimentary rockt lava flow or duricrust, surrounded by a plaim

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Butte

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A deeply incised, steep-sided river valley

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Canyon

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asymmetrical upland feature usually associated with gently dipping
rocks and comprising a steep scarp-slope (or escaqpment) and a
longer gentler dip slope

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Cuesta

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A depositional landform produced by sedimentation at and around the mouth a river river- tide- wave-dominated

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Delta

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A large area of sand dunes

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Erg

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a long winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel that are frequently several km long ang are somewhat like railroad embankments

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Eskers

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13
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A steep slope coinciding with the line of a fault

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Fault Scarp

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triangular-shaped remnants of the bedbetween V-shaped notches; steeply sloping wedge-shaped landscape features created by differential erosion

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Flatirons

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German ‘sea of rock’; areas covered by large angular blocks (formed in situ), traditionally believed to have been created by freeze-thaw action

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Felsenmeer/Blockfield

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Major splits into limestone pavement, formed by widening, deepening; and eventualnergingcofsolution features flat level” long linear weakness in the rock

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Grike (Bogaz)

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small closed depressions on horizontal and gently inclined rock surfces; similar to solution pits in carbonate rocks;

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Gnamma

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A mountaintop that has been modified by the action of ice during glaciation and frost weathering; also pyramidal peak

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Glacial Horn

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A tall, thin spire of soft (sedimentary) rock topped by harder, more resistant stone that protects each column from erosion

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Hoodoo

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Large, perennial, conical, ice-cored moutains that are common in
areas dominated by fine- grained sediments, with the ice forming from iniected water

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Hydrolaccoliths

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large, freestanding, residual masses of rock

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Inselberg (tor/Monadnock)

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A narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water that otherwise separates them

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Isthmus

23
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Groups of residual, steep-sided hills Rproduced by limestone solution

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Kegelkarst (cone karst or cockpit karst)

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An umbrella term which covers an elaborately diverse groups od small scale solutional features and sculpturing found on limestone and dolomite surfacesexposed at the ground surface or in caves

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Karren

25
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Permafrost mounds formed by ice segregation within mineral soils that occur within the zone of discontinuous permafrost

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Lithalsas (Stone rings)

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An embankment, natural or man- made, that confines flow during high—water periods

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Levee

27
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Occurs when a meandering river on alluvium eats downinto the underlying bedrock

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Incised Meander

28
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A prominent limestone hill in an area of tower karst

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Mogote

29
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An elongated cliff-base hollow cut out by abrasion, usually where breaking waves are armed with rock fragments

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Abraison Notch

30
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A point of land, usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends out into a body of water

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Ness (headland/promontory/cape)

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A horse-shoe shaped length of stream channel which is an almost closed meander loop

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Oxbow

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Forms just under a boulder, from whichn the rate of surface lowering may be evaluated

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Pedestal

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A large karst depression that may sometimes be flooded with water,
and which has been formed either by solution, or cavern collapse or for stuctural reasons

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Polje

34
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a sheet-like surface of rock fragrnents that remains wind
water have removed the be fine particles

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Reg (Desert Pavement/Gibber/hamada)

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A long, narrow, often branching inlet formed by marine submergence of parts of a river valley that have previously been-incised to a lower level

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Ria

36
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accumulation of broken rock fragments that typically have a concave upwards form

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Scree/Talus

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An isolated upstanding steep-sided rock pillar, column or pinnacle rising from the shore, a shore platform, or the sea floor close to a cliffed coast

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Stack or stump

38
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Cavernous weathering hollows produced in vertical or near vertical rock faces

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Tafoni

39
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A variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water

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Travertine/Tufa

40
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A depression or large hollow in limestone areas produced when
several sinkholes or dolines coalesce

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Uvala

41
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created when magma hardens within a vent on an active volcano; a distinctive upstanding landform produced when erosion removes the surroounding rock while the erosion resistant plug remains

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Volcanic Neck/pipe

42
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Notch or abandoned former channel in resistant bedrock ridges that was formerlya water gap when there was insufficient stream power to complete the down cutting process

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Wind Gap

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A tributary stream that is prevented from joining the main river because of the levees which flank the latter

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Yazoo

44
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A streamlined hill carved from bedrock or any consolidated or semi-cpnsolidated material that resembless the hull of a boat

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Yardang/Zeugen

45
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Isolated rocks between joints that result from downward erosion of less resistant layers

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Rock fins

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