landform

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Think to those early maps for New England, identifying people groups were as abundant as placenames and detailed landform.

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Any geological feature, such as a mountain or valley.

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noun

Any geological feature, such as a mountain or valley.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for landform.

noun

Any geological feature, such as a mountain or valley.

Example sentences

Think to those early maps for New England, identifying people groups were as abundant as placenames and detailed landform.

The centrepiece of this 19-hectare park is ‘The Lady of the North’, a stunning human landform sculpture of a reclining lady.

It's certainly not anachronistic in England in place names, nor as a name for a type of (water- or glacier-carved) landform.

I don't know why the author spelled it like that throughout the article when talking about the landform.

As the car gently noses over when you finally reach the turn, the first landform you see is a 10K+ peak about 15 miles away.

A weir way uphill with a penstock and Pelton wheel could do better than the old mill, but both depend on landform features with limited distribution.

Another kind of landform is a river, brook, creek, flume, gully, gorge, stream, channel.

Here's the official website with some explanation: Northumberlandia is a unique piece of public art set in a 19-hectare community park providing free public access, with four miles of footpaths on and around the landform, along with a café and visitor centre.

If you zoom to a level where you would expect to see individual towns, etc you will find the Aegean Sea labeled as being in the Pacific Ocean and all the coastline and landform data completely broken so that it isn't possible to identify any of the islands that could be affected in the region.

The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine has a go at that task using 42 parameters, modern computing tables might require 120 or so, and both systems would routinely require parameters to be updated in response to computational drift and changes in landform (erosion, silt and mud build up, new channels being carved out, etc).

English landform words for a particular kind include: mountain, mount, peak, hill, ridge, crest, rock, mesa, knob, butte, table, dome, mound.

Quote examples

"Keyline" design—a method of cheaply altering landform to soak water—is probably a good start for these new infiltration maximizing strategies, but this is by no means a solved problem.