All About World

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Mountain and glacial landforms

  • arĂȘte
  • cirque
  • crevasse
  • corrie or cwm
  • dirt cone
  • drumlin & drumlin field
  • esker
  • fjord
  • glacial horn
  • glacier
  • glacier cave
  • glacier foreland
  • hanging valley
  • hill
  • inselberg
  • kame
  • kame delta
  • kettle
  • monadnock
  • moraine and ribbed moraines
  • moulin (geology)
  • mountain & mountain range
  • nunatak
  • outwash fan and outwash plain
  • pingo
  • rift valley
  • sandur
  • side valley
  • stream terrace
  • summit
  • tunnel valley
  • valley
  • U-shaped valley

Fluvial landforms

  • ait
  • alluvial fan
  • anabranch
  • arroyo
  • drainage basin
  • bar
  • bayou
  • beach
  • braided channel
  • Carolina Bay
  • cave
  • cliff
  • drainage basin
  • endorheic basin
  • exhumed river channel
  • gully
  • island
  • lacustrine plain
  • lake
  • natural levee
  • marsh
  • meander
  • oasis
  • oxbow lake
  • peneplain
  • playa
  • pond
  • natural pool
  • proglacial lake
  • rapid
  • riffle
  • river
  • rock-cut basin
  • shoal
  • spring
  • stream
  • stream terrace
  • swamp
  • valley and vale
  • wadi
  • waterfall
  • watershed

Coastal and oceanic landforms

  • abyssal fan
  • abyssal plain
  • archipelago
  • atoll
  • arch
  • ayre
  • barrier bar & barrier island
  • bay & gulf
  • beach & raised beach
  • beach cusps
  • beach ridge
  • bight
  • blowhole
  • channel
  • cape
  • cliff
  • coast
  • continental shelf
  • coral reef
  • cove
  • cuspate foreland
  • dune system
  • estuary
  • firth
  • fjord
  • headland
  • inlet
  • island, islet
  • isthmus
  • lagoon
  • machair
  • Mid-ocean ridge
  • ocean
  • oceanic basin
  • oceanic plateau
  • oceanic trench
  • peninsula
  • ria
  • river delta
  • salt marsh
  • sea
  • sea cave
  • shoal
  • sound
  • spit
  • strait
  • stack & stump
  • surge channel
  • tombolo
  • volcanic arc
  • wave cut platform

Ancient Oceanic Ridges

  • Phoenix Ridge
  • Izanagi Ridge
  • Kula-Farallon Ridge
  • Pacific-Kula Ridge
  • Pacific-Farallon Ridge
  • Bellingshausen Ridge
  • Aegir Ridge

Oceanic Ridges

  • Chile Rise
  • Cocos Ridge
  • East Pacific Rise
  • Chukchi Cap
  • Alpha Ridge
  • Explorer Ridge
  • Gakkel Ridge (Mid-Arctic Ridge)
  • Gorda Ridge
  • Juan de Fuca Ridge
  • Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  • Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
  • Reykjanes Ridge
  • Central Indian Ridge
  • Southeast Indian Ridge
  • Southwest Indian Ridge

Ancient oceanic trenches

TrenchLocation
Intermontane TrenchWestern North America; between Intermontane Islands and North America
Insular TrenchWestern North America; between Insular Islands and Intermontane Islands
Farallon TrenchWestern North America
Tethyan TrenchSouth of Turkey, Iran, Tibet and Southeast Asia

Major oceanic trenches

TrenchOceanDepth
Mariana TrenchPacific Ocean10,911m
Tonga TrenchPacific Ocean10,882m
Kuril TrenchPacific Ocean10,542 m
Philippine TrenchPacific Ocean10,540 m
Kermadec TrenchPacific Ocean10,047 m
Izu-Bonin Trench (Izu-Ogasawara Trench)Pacific Ocean9,780 m
Japan TrenchPacific Ocean9,000 m
Puerto Rico TrenchAtlantic Ocean8,605 m
Peru-Chile Trench or Atacama TrenchPacific Ocean8,065 m