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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.
Cryoplanation terrace – Formation of plains, terraces and pediments in periglacial environments; Cuesta – Hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side and a steep slope on the other; Dissected plateau – Plateaus area that has been severely eroded so that the relief is sharp; Erg – Broad area of desert covered with wind-swept sand
The Interior Plains are highlighted in red. The Interior Plains is a vast physiographic region that spreads across the Laurentian craton of central North America, extending along the east flank of the Rocky Mountains from the Gulf Coast region to the Arctic Beaufort Sea.
The Great Plains is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. The region is located just to the east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, ...
Some generic landform elements including: pits, peaks, channels, ridges, passes, pools and plains. Terrain (or relief ) is the third or vertical dimension of land surface . Topography is the study of terrain, although the word is often used as a synonym for relief itself.
Atlantic Plain Physiographic Division of the United States. Green highlighted area is the Atlantic Plain, and the other seven physiographic divisions of the contiguous United States are shown in the legend.
Abyssal plains are key geologic elements of oceanic basins (the other elements being an elevated mid-ocean ridge and flanking abyssal hills). The creation of the abyssal plain is the result of the spreading of the seafloor (plate tectonics) and the melting of the lower oceanic crust .
Coastal plains can form in one of two ways; some begin as a continental shelf, a flat piece of land located below sea level, and are created when the ocean level falls, exposing the land. Others develop when river currents carry sediment into the ocean, which is deposited and builds up over time until it forms a coastal plain.