LANDFORMS AND THEIR EVOLUTION

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type of plain forming as a result of

stream erosion is called a

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peneplain

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The divides between drainage basins are likewise lowered until they are almost completely flattened leaving finally, a lowland of faint relief with some low resistant remnants called

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monadnocks

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aterfalls and rapids may exist in this stage

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youth

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Streams divides are broad and flat with marshes, swamp and lakes in this stage

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youth

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Erosional landforms by running water

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Valleys, Potholes and Plunge Pools ,Incised or Entrenched Meanders, River Terraces

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DEPOSITIONAL LANDFORMS

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Alluvial Fans, Deltas Floodplains, Natural Levees and Point Bars Meanders Braided Channels

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a deep valley with very steep to straight sides

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gorge

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steep step-like side slope

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Canyon

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But very deep and wide meandersb can also be found cut in hard rocks

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Incised or Entrenched Meanders

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basically products of erosion as they result due to vertical erosion by the stream into its own depositional floodplain

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River Terraces

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This load becomes too heavyn for the streams to be carried over gentler gradients and gets dumped and spread as a broad low to high cone shaped deposit called

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alluvial fan

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In meanders there is active

deposition along the

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convex bank

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In meanders there is active undercutting along the

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concave bank.

Question 14

Any limestone or dolomitic region
showing typical landforms produced by the
action of groundwater through the processes
of solution and deposition is called

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Karst

topography

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EROSIONAL LANDFORMS for groundwater

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Pools, Sinkholes, Lapies and

Limestone Pavements, caves

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Depositional Landforms for groundwater

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Stalactites, Stalagmites and Pillars

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Small to medium sized round to sub-rounded

shallow depressions called

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swallow holes

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is an opening more or less circular at the top and funnel-shapped towards nthe bottom

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Sink hole

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The term is sometimes used to refer the collapse sink

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doline

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when sink holes and doline join , long,

narrow to wide trenches called

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valley sinks or Uvalas form.

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rise up from the floor of the caves.

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Stalagmites

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Alkapuri glacier

feeds waters to river.

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Alakananda river.

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EROSIONAL LANDFORMS due to glaciers

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Cirque, Horns and Serrated Ridges, Glacial Valleys/Troughs, aretes

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Depositional Landforms due to glaciers

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Eskers, Moraines , Outwash Plains, Drumlins

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They are deep, long and wide troughs or basins with
very steep concave to vertically dropping high
walls at its head as well as sides

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Cirque

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lake of watercan be seen quite often within the cirques after the glacier disappears

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tarn lakes

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trough-like and U-shaped with broad floors and relatively smooth, and steep sides.

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Glacial Valleys

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Very deep glacial troughs filled with sea water and
making up shorelines (in high latitudes) are
called

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fjords/fiords.

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The unassorted coarse and fine debris dropped

by the melting glaciers is called

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glacial till

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They are long ridges of deposits of glacial til

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Moraines

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Very coarse materials like boulders and blocks along with some minor fractions of rock debris carried into this stream settle in the valley of ice beneath the glacier and after the ice melts can be found as a
sinuous ridge called

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esker

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smooth oval shaped ridge-like features composed mainly of glacial till with some masses of gravel and sand.

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Drumlins

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give an indication of direction of

glacier movement

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Drumlins

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Stoss and tail are parts of

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Drumlins

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high, rocky coasts (

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(submerged coasts);

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low, smooth and gently sloping

sedimentary coasts

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(emerged coasts

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Erosion features dominate in

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(submerged coasts);

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Marshes and swaps are bound along

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(emerged coasts

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depositional features dominate in

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(emerged coasts

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EROSIONAL LANDFORMS due to wave current

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Cliffs, Terraces, Caves and Stacks

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DEPOSITIONAL LANDFORMS due to wave current

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Beaches and Dunes, Bars, Barriers and Spits

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Platforms occurring at elevations above the

average height of waves is called

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a wave-cut terrace.

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Deflation includes

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lifting and removal of dust and smaller particles from the surface of rocks

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EROSIONAL LANDFORMS due to wind

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Pediments and Pediplains, Playas, Deflation Hollows and Caves, mushroom table and pedestal rocks,

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Gently inclined rocky floors close to the mountains at their foot with or without a thin cover of debris, are called

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pediments

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inselberg is a

.

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remnant of the mountain

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The playab plain covered up by salts is called

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alkali flats

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Crescent shaped dunes called with the points or wings directed away from wind direction

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barchans

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Parabolic dunes form when n

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sandy surfaces are partially covered

with vegetation are are opposite of barchans

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Longitudinal dunes form when

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supply of sand is poor and wind

direction is constant

Question 51

These dunes form when the
wind direction is constant and the source of
sand is an elongated feature at right angles to
the wind direction.

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Transverse dunes