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  2. Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

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    Nubbin – Small hill of bedrock with rounded residual blocks; Panhole – Depression or basin eroded into flat or gently sloping cohesive rock (Weathering pit) Tafoni – Small to large indentations in vertical to steeply sloping granular rock; Tor – Large, free-standing rock outcrop on a gentle hill summit

  3. Barnack Hills & Holes National Nature Reserve - Wikipedia

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    Barnack Hills & Holes is a 23.3-hectare (58-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Barnack in Cambridgeshire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also a national nature reserve . [ 3 ] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. [ 4 ] In 2002 it was designated as a Special Area of Conservation , to protect the orchid-rich grassland as part ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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"

  7. Hell Creek Formation - Wikipedia

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    There are numerous types of leaves, seeds, flowers and other structures from Angiosperms, or flowering plants. The Hell Creek Formation of this layer contains over 300 tablets, of which angiosperms are by far the most diverse and dominant flora of the entire population, about 90 percent, followed by about 5% of conifers , 4% of ferns , and others.

  8. Glacial erratic - Wikipedia

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    Multiple erratics on the terminal moraine of the Okanogan Lobe. The Cascade Mountains are in the background.. The term "erratic" is commonly used to refer to erratic blocks, which geologist Archibald Geikie describes as: "large masses of rock, often as big as a house, that have been transported by glacier ice, and have been lodged in a prominent position in the glacier valleys or have been ...

  9. 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 ...