relict landform

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• relict-tidal inlet —    (not preferred)    see tidal inlet [ relict ] …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• relict —    (adjective)    Pertaining to surface landscape features e.g., landforms, geomorphic surfaces, and paleosols that have never been buried and yet are predominantly products of past environments.    Compare: exhumed, buried, ground soil.    HP …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• residual landform — also called  Relict Landform,         landform that was produced as the remains of an ancient landscape, escaping burial or destruction to remain as part of the present landscape. Residual landforms are often the result of changed climatic… …   Universalium

• continental landform — ▪ geology Introduction       any conspicuous topographic feature on the largest land areas of the Earth. Familiar examples are mountains (including volcanic (volcanism) cones), plateaus, and valleys. (The term landform also can be applied to… …   Universalium

• glacial landform — ▪ geology Introduction  any product of flowing ice and meltwater. Such landforms are being produced today in glaciated areas, such as Greenland, Antarctica, and many of the world s higher mountain ranges. In addition, large expansions of present… …   Universalium

• nearshore zone —    I.    A subaqueous marine or lacustrine landform area that generally parallels the shore and extends seaward or lakeward from the low water line to beyond the breaker zone including longshore bars. In the nearshore zone, waves steepen, break,… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• barrier beach —    1) A narrow, elongate, coarse textured, intertidal, sloping landform that is generally parallel with the beach ridge component of a barrier island or spit and adjacent to the ocean.    Compare: barrier island.    SSS    2) [ relict ]… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• pluvial lake —    I.    A lake formed in an extended period of exceptionally heavy rainfall.    Compare: pluvial lake [ relict ], glacial lake, proglacial lake.    SW & GG    II.    [ relict ]    A lake formed in an extended period of exceptionally heavy… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• fan remnant —    A general term for landforms that are the remaining parts of older fan landforms, such as alluvial fans, fan aprons, inset fans, and fan skirts, that either have been dissected (erosional fan remnants) or partially buried (nonburied fan… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• shoal —    1) (noun)     a) A relatively shallow place in a stream, lake, sea, or other body of water; a shallows.     b) A natural, subaqueous ridge, bank, or bar consisting of, or covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, rising from the bed… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• tidal inlet —    1) Any inlet through which water alternately floods landward with the rising tide and ebbs seaward with the falling tide.    Compare: inlet, relict tidal inlet.    GG    2) [ relict ]    A channel remnant of a former tidal inlet. The channel… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms