dip slopes

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• Dip slope — Schematic cross section of a cuesta, dip slopes facing left and harder rock layers in darker colors than softer ones A dip slope is a geological formation often created by erosion of tilted strata.[1] Dip slopes are found on homoclinal ridges …   Wikipedia

• dip — dip1 [dıp] v past tense and past participle dipped present participle dipping ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(put something in liquid)¦ 2¦(move down)¦ 3¦(become less)¦ 4¦(road/path)¦ 5 dip your headlights/lights 6¦(animals)¦ Phrasal verbs 　dip into something …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Cuesta — For Spain general during the Napoleonic wars, see Gregorio García de la Cuesta. Escarpment face of a cuesta broken by a fault. Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee …   Wikipedia

• East African mountains — ▪ mountains, East Africa Introduction  mountain region (eastern Africa) of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Congo (Kinshasa) (Congo), Rwanda, and Burundi. The mountains are intimately related to the East African …   Universalium

• Magaliesberg — and Pilanesberg Magaliesberg east to Har …   Wikipedia

• Homocline — In structural geology, a uniclinal structure, homoclinal structure, unicline or homocline (from old el. homo = same, cline = inclination)cite web |url=http://www.wou.edu/las/physci/taylor/erth350/erth350.htm |title=Overview of Structural Geology… …   Wikipedia

• cuesta — /kwes teuh/, n. a long, low ridge with a relatively steep face or escarpment on one side and a long, gentle slope on the other. [1810 20, Amer.; < Sp: shoulder, sloping land < L costa side (of a hill), rib; see COAST] * * * ▪ geology (Spanish:… …   Universalium

• Hogback (geology) — A hogback is a homoclinal ridge composed of steeply tilted strata of rock protruding from the surrounding area. The name comes from the ridge resembling the ridge between the shoulders of a hog. In many cases, the two strata that compose a… …   Wikipedia

• breached anticline —    A structurally controlled landscape or landform typically underlain by sedimentary rocks in which an anticline crest has been eroded such that the former crest has become a canyon or valley flanked by inward facing erosional scarp slopes or… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• fold-thrust hills —    A landscape along an orogenic belt margin underlain dominantly by sedimentary rocks that have undergone intensive structural deformation via a series of sub parallel thrust faults and associated folds. The thrust faults typically merge along a …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• Aloe peglerae — Taxobox name = Aloe peglerae status = EN | status system = IUCN3.1 image caption = On Magaliesberg dip slope regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Liliopsida ordo = Asparagales familia = Asphodelaceae genus = Aloe species = A.… …   Wikipedia