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Many hills are categorized according to relative height or other criteria and feature on lists named after mountaineers, such as Munros (Scotland) and Wainwrights (England). Specific activities such as "peak bagging" (or "Munro bagging") involve climbing hills on these lists with the aim of eventually climbing every hill on the list.
Sivalik Hills along the Himalayas in the Indian subcontinent; Catalina Foothills near Tucson, Arizona, USA; Margalla hills near the Himalayas in Pakistan; The Duars, Chos and Terai on the foothills of Himalayas (India) The foothills around Boise in Idaho, USA; The foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia.
Valley – Low area between hills, often with a river running through it; Vale – Low area between hills, often with a river running through it; Wadi – River valley, especially a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain; Waterfall – A point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop
Examples are mountains, hills, polar caps, and valleys, which are found on all of the terrestrial planets. The scientific study of landforms is known as geomorphology. In onomastic terminology, toponyms (geographical proper names) of individual landform objects (mountains, hills, valleys, etc.) are called oronyms. [4]
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny. [1]
For hills with low prominence in Britain, a definition of "parent Marilyn" is sometimes used to classify low hills ("Marilyn" being a British term for a hill with a prominence of at least 150 m). [3] [4] This is found by dividing the region of Britain in question into territories, one for each Marilyn. The parent Marilyn is the Marilyn whose ...
This is a list of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland by height.Hewitts are defined as "Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over two thousand" feet 2,000 feet (609.6 m) in height, the general requirement to be called a "mountain" in the British Isles, and with a prominence above 30 metres (98.4 ft); a mix of imperial and metric thresholds.
Dell in the Little Carpathians with a dry stream channel. In physical geography, a dell is a grassy hollow—or dried stream bed—often partially covered in trees. [1] [2] In literature, dells have pastoral connotations, frequently imagined as secluded and pleasant safe havens.