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Bergschrunds are common in mountainous areas, often forming seasonally near the back of a cirque where the ice meets a steep or rocky headwall. When the rift forms directly between ice and rock, the gap is called a randkluft. [4] berm 1. A level space, shelf, or raised barrier separating two areas, often man-made and built of compacted earth.
Tide pool – Rocky pool on a seashore, separated from the sea at low tide, filled with seawater; Tombolo – Deposition landform in which an island is connected to the mainland by a sandy isthmus; Volcanic arc – Chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate; Wave-cut platform – Narrow flat area created by erosion
The rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite. The Earth's lithosphere is composed of the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time scales of up to thousands of years or more. lithotype Specific types of rock classified according to the standards of lithology. loess
The Canadian Shield (French: Bouclier canadien [buklje kanadjɛ̃]), also called the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks.
The shelf surrounding an island is known as an "insular shelf." The continental margin, between the continental shelf and the abyssal plain, comprises a steep continental slope, surrounded by the flatter continental rise, in which sediment from the continent above cascades down the slope and accumulates as a pile of sediment at the base of the ...
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Leech, G.B. 1959. The southern part of the Rocky Mountain Trench, in Holland, S.S., chairman, Symposium on the Rocky Mountain Trench. Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin 565 (62): 327–333. van der Velden, A.J. and Cook, F.A. 1996. Structure and tectonic development of the southern Rocky Mountain Trench. Tectonics 15 (3): 517–544.