Listing of Landform Terms 



Terms in these lists are in groups that deal with the 

 shape-form-position, materials, or genesis-process of 

 landforms. Some terms for materials, for example, allu- 

 vium and till, also imply a process or genesis but are only 

 included in the list of materials. A few terms are in two 

 lists because of the way they are defined. 



Shape-Form-Position Terms 



Active slope 

 Alluvial cone 

 Alluvial fan 

 Alluvial flat 

 Alluvial plain 

 Alluvial terrace 

 Alpine 

 Anticline 

 Arete 

 Arroyo 



Avalanche chute 

 Avalanche track 

 Backslope 

 Backswamp 

 Badlands 

 Bajada 

 Ballena 

 Bar 



Bar and channel 

 Barrier beach 

 Barrier flat- 

 Barrier island 

 Base level 

 Basin 



Basin floor 

 Basin-floor remnant 

 Beach 



Beach plain 

 Beach ridge 

 Beach terrace 

 Bench 

 Berm 

 Bluff 

 Bog 

 Bolson 



Braided channel or stream 

 Break 

 Breaks 

 Butte 

 Caldera 



Canyon 



Carolina bay 



Catsteps 



Channel 



Cirque 



Cliff 



Coalesced fan piedmont 



Coastal plain 



Col 



Crest 



Cuesta 



Delta 



Dipslope 



Divide 



Dome 



Draw 



Drumlin 



Dune 



Dune (Barchan) 



Dune (Parma) 



Dune (Seif) 



Ephemeral stream 



Escarpment 



Esker 



Estuary 



Fall line 



Fan apron 



Fan piedmont 



Fan terrace 



Fault 



Fen 



Flood plain 



Flood-plain landforms 



Flood-plain playa 



Flood-plain splay 



Floor 



Fold 



Foothills 



Footslope 



Foredune 



Geomorphic surface 



Gilgai 



Gorge 



Gulch 



Gully 



Hanging Valley 



Headland (coast) 



Headwall 



Hill 



Hillslope 



Hogback 



Homoclinal 



Hummock 



Interfluve 



Intermittent stream 



Intermontane basin 



Joint (Geology) 



Kame 



Kame terrace 



Karst 



Kettle 



Knickpoint 



Knob 



Knoll 



Lagoon 



Lake plain 



Landform 



Landform element 



Landscape 



Land-surface form 



Ledge 



Levee 



Meander, meandering 



channel 

 Meander belt 

 Meander scroll 

 Mesa 



Metastable slope 

 Mima mound 

 Monocline 



Moraine (glacial geology) 

 Moraine (end) 

 Moraine (ground) 

 Moraine (lateral) 

 Moraine (recessional) 

 Moraine (terminal) 

 Mound 

 Mountain 

 Natural levee 

 Nunatak 



Outwash plain 



Overthrust 



Oxbow 



Oxbow lake 



Patterned ground 



Peak 



Pediment 



Peneplain 



Piedmont 



Piedmont slope 



Pingo 



Plain 



Plateau 



Playa 



Pocosin 



Point bar 



Pothole 



Ravine 



Reef 



Relief 



Ridge 



Saddle 



Salt marsh 



Scarp 



Scour 



Semi-bolson 



Shoal 



Shoulder 



Sinkhole 



Spit 



Spur 



Steptoe 



Strath terrace 



Stream terrace 



Structural bench (or bench) 



Summit 



Swale 



Swamp 



Swash zone 



Swell-and-swale topography 



Syncline 



Tableland 



Terrace 



Terracettes 



Thermokarst 



Tidal flat 



Till plain 



Toeslope 



Topography 



Trough (geomorph) 



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