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Glen – Name for valley commonly used in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man; Gorge – Deep chasm between cliffs; Graben – Depressed block of planetary crust bordered by parallel normal faults; Gulch – Deep V-shaped valley formed by erosion; Gulf; Gully – Landform created by running water and/or mass movement eroding sharply into soil
A landmass, or land mass, is a large region or area of land that is in one piece and not noticeably broken up by oceans. [1] [2] The term is often used to refer to lands surrounded by an ocean or sea, such as a continent or a large island. [3] [4] In the field of geology, a landmass is a defined section of continental crust extending above sea ...
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water.
Pangaea, the supercontinent that existed about 200 million years ago and combined most of dry land on Earth into one giant landmass (according to the BBC), is well known.
Cape of Good Hope (left) and Cape Hangklip (right) in South Africa, from space Cape Tisan in Mersin Province, Turkey Cape Tindari and Marinello lagoons, Sicily. In geography, a cape is a headland, peninsula or promontory extending into a body of water, usually a sea. [1]
Another name for a shingle beach or other gravel-covered spit, bar, or tombolo, used primarily in the archipelagos of northern Scotland. azimuth The angle formed between a reference vector (often magnetic north) and a line from the observer to a point of interest projected perpendicularly to the zenith on the same plane as the reference vector.
Gondwana (/ ɡ ɒ n d ˈ w ɑː n ə /) [1] was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.The remnants of Gondwana make up around two-thirds of today's continental area, including South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Zealandia, Arabia, and the Indian subcontinent.
For the most part, the geographic names in this list were derived from two other names or words. Those derived from three or more names are usually considered acronyms or initialisms and can be found in the List of geographic acronyms and initialisms. However, there are exceptions to this two/three rule in both lists, so it is more of a ...