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Abyssal plain – Flat area on the deep ocean floor; Bench – Long, relatively narrow land bounded by distinctly steeper slopes above and below; Butte – Isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; Coastal plain – Area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a seacoast
The village of Santarfa in Ethiopia is established on a structural flat along a 1000-metre-high escarpment. A flat is a relatively level surface of land within a region of greater relief, such as hills or mountains, usually used in the plural.
A word identifying a person or a group of people in relation to a particular place, usually derived from the name of the place (which may be any kind of place, formal or informal, of any size or scale, from a town or city to a region, province, country, or continent) and used to describe all residents or natives of that place, regardless of any ...
A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a more resistant layer or layers of harder rock, e.g. shales overlain by sandstones. The resistant ...
Plain of Campidano, Italy. A plain or flatland is a flat expanse of land with a layer of grass that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless.. Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands.
An alluvial plain is a plain (an essentially flat landform) created by the deposition of sediment over a long period by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which alluvial soil forms. A floodplain is part of the process, being the smaller area over which the rivers flood at a particular time. In contrast, the alluvial plain is ...
It was an elaboration of the uniformitarianism theory that had first been proposed by James Hutton (1726–1797). [24] With regard to valley forms, for example, uniformitarianism posited a sequence in which a river runs through a flat terrain, gradually carving an increasingly deep valley, until the side valleys eventually erode, flattening the ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...