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A glade in a montane forest in the Olympic Mountains An alder glade along the Elwha River Artificial clearing in Börnste hamlet, Kirchspiel, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany In the most general sense, a glade or clearing is an open area within a forest .
Limestone glade in the Pennyroyal Plain, Simpson County, Kentucky. A calcareous glade is a type of ecological community that is found in the central Eastern United States. Calcareous glades occur where bedrock such as limestone occurs near or at the surface, and have very shallow and little soil development.
Five separate glades were identified and named in 1911: [4] Big Glade (59 acres), Flag Glade (28 acres), Long Glade (20 acres), Round Glade (8 acres) and Little Glade (1 acre). The smallest, Little Glade, has since grown over and is no longer recognizable.
Fluvial terraces are elongated terraces that flank the sides of floodplains and fluvial valleys all over the world. They consist of a relatively level strip of land, called a "tread", separated from either an adjacent floodplain, other fluvial terraces, or uplands by distinctly steeper strips of land called "risers".
Gully – Landform created by running water and/or mass movement eroding sharply into soil; Guyot – Isolated, flat-topped underwater volcano mountain; Hanging valley – A tributary valley that meets the main valley above the valley floor; Headland – Landform extending into a body of water, often with significant height and drop
Buckel's Bog was a 160-acre, shallow periglacial lake or a glade that occupied the headwater region of the North Branch of the Casselman River in Garrett County, Maryland, during the late Pleistocene epoch. [1] It is the remnant of the only known natural lake in Maryland. [1] [2]
Dell in the Little Carpathians with a dry stream channel. In physical geography, a dell is a grassy hollow—or dried stream bed—often partially covered in trees. [1] [2] In literature, dells have pastoral connotations, frequently imagined as secluded and pleasant safe havens.
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic [1] [2] land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain , and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography .