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  2. Dissected Till Plains - Wikipedia

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    Continental U.S. physiographic regions. Region 12e identifies the Dissected Till Plains. The Dissected Till Plains are physiographic sections of the Central Lowlands province, which in turn is part of the Interior Plains physiographic division of the United States, located in southern and western Iowa, northeastern Kansas, the southwestern corner of Minnesota, northern Missouri, eastern ...

  3. Map seed - Wikipedia

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    In video games using procedural world generation, the map seed is a (relatively) short number or text string which is used to procedurally create the game world ("map"). "). This means that while the seed-unique generated map may be many megabytes in size (often generated incrementally and virtually unlimited in potential size), it is possible to reset to the unmodified map, or the unmodified ...

  4. Duluth Complex - Wikipedia

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    Shaded-relief image showing the Duluth Complex arcing from Duluth to Pigeon Point, interrupting and splitting the Mesabi and Gunflint Ranges. The Duluth Complex, the related Beaver Bay Complex, [1] and the associated North Shore Volcanic Group are rock formations which comprise much of the basement bedrock of the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota in central North America.

  5. Driftless Area - Wikipedia

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    Autumn in the Driftless Area of Cross Plains, Wisconsin. The Driftless Area, also known as Bluff Country and the Paleozoic Plateau, is a topographic and cultural region in the Midwestern United States [1] that comprises southwestern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, and the extreme northwestern corner of Illinois.

  6. Fault block - Wikipedia

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    The Hanging Hills of Connecticut (Metacomet Ridge range); upfaulting visible from right to left. Horizontal movement between blocks along a strike-slip fault. Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust.

  7. Flint Hills - Wikipedia

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    Explorer Zebulon Pike first coined the name the Flint Hills in 1806 when he entered into his journal, "passed very ruff flint hills". The underlying bedrock of the hills is a flinty limestone. The largest town in the area is Manhattan, Kansas, and the hills can be accessed from the Flint Hills Scenic Byway, which passes through the region.

  8. Mesa - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, flat topped hills with areas as small as 0.1 km 2 (0.039 sq mi) in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany, are described as mesas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Less strictly, a very broad, flat-topped, usually isolated hill or mountain of moderate height bounded on at least one side by a steep cliff or slope and representing an erosion remnant ...

  9. Windswept - Wikipedia

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    Windswept may refer to: Windswept (song), a song performed by Bryan Ferry; Windswept (Steuben, Maine), the summer house of writer Mary Ellen Chase; Windswept, a book by Mary Ellen Chase; Windswept Acres-Powers House; Windswept Farm; Windswept House: A Vatican Novel; Nematoceras dienemum, also known as the "windswept helmet orchid"