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The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
List of valleys of Scotland; List of largest rifts, canyons and valleys in the Solar System; U. List of canyons and gorges in Utah; List of valleys of Utah
Side valley – Valley with a tributary to a larger river; Summit – Point on a surface with a higher elevation than all immediately adjacent points; Trim line – Clear line on the side of a valley marking the most recent highest extent of the glacier; Truncated spur – Ridge that descends towards a valley floor or coastline that is cut short
Summit of Mount Kenya, with names of main glaciers, valleys and peaks. Mount Kenya (5,199 metres (17,057 ft)) is the second highest mountain in Africa and the highest mountain in Kenya, [1] after which the country is named. [2] It lies just south of the equator and currently has eleven small glaciers.
metatoponyms - proper names of places containing recursive elements (e.g. Red River Valley Road). oronyms - proper names of relief features, like mountains, hills and valleys, [ 27 ] including: speleonyms - proper names of caves or some other subterranean features.
List of geological features on Mercury is an itemization of mountains, valleys, craters and other landform features of the planet Mercury.Different types of features are named after different things: Mercurian ridges are called dorsa, and are named after astronomers who made detailed studies of the planet; valleys are called valles, and are named after ancient abandoned cities, towns, and ...
A popular and intuitive way to distinguish mountains from subsidiary peaks is by their height above the highest saddle connecting it to a higher summit, a measure called topographic prominence or re-ascent (the higher summit is called the "parent peak"). A common definition of a mountain is a summit with 300 m (980 ft) prominence.
This is an incomplete list of notable mountains on Earth, sorted by elevation in metres above sea level. For a complete list of mountains over 7200 m high, with at least 500 m of prominence, see List of highest mountains. See also a list of mountains ranked by prominence.