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Print/export Download as PDF ... This is a list of mountain passes — generally called notches — in New Hampshire in the ... Zealand Notch: 872973: between ...
A col in geomorphology is the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks. [1] It may also be called a gap or pass. [1] Particularly rugged and forbidding cols in the terrain are usually referred to as notches. They are generally unsuitable as mountain passes, but are occasionally crossed by mule tracks or climbers' routes.
A gap is a geological formation that is a low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range. It may be called a col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, or wind gap. Geomorphologically, a gap is most often carved by water erosion from a freshet, stream or a river. [1]
Dale – Low area between hills, often with a river running through it; Defile – Narrow pass or gorge between mountains or hills; Dell – Small secluded hollow; Depression – Landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area; Delta, River – Silt deposition landform at the mouth of a river; Desert pavement – Type of desert earth ...
Idealised mountain pass represented as the green line; the saddle point is in red.. Mountain passes make use of a gap, saddle, col or notch.A topographic saddle is analogous to the mathematical concept of a saddle surface, with a saddle point marking the minimum high point between two valleys and the lowest point along a ridge.
The notch lies between Whitewall Mountain (3,405 ft./1,038 m.) to the east and Zeacliff (approx. 3,600 ft./1,097 m.), an eastern arm of Zealand Mountain, to the west. The Appalachian Trail traverses Zealand Notch. From the west, the trail (paired with the Twinway trail) descends from Zeacliff past Zealand Falls (a long series of smooth granite ...
• "sattel zwischen" means saddle between, so the labeling is saying the saddle between A and C is the same saddle as between A and B Route along a saddle. The saddle between two hills or mountains is the region surrounding the saddle point, the lowest point on the line tracing the drainage divide (the col) connecting the peaks
Covered bridge near the Flume A hiking trail through Franconia Notch The Basin. Franconia Notch State Park is a public recreation area and nature preserve that straddles eight miles (13 km) of Interstate 93 as it passes through Franconia Notch, a mountain pass between the Kinsman Range and Franconia Range in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, United States.