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As a type of landscaping, it is called terracing. Terraced fields decrease both erosion and surface runoff , and may be used to support growing crops that require irrigation , such as rice . The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras have been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of the significance of this technique.
Autumn colours at Stourhead gardens. The landscape design phase consists of research, gathering ideas, and setting a plan. Design factors include objective qualities such as: climate and microclimates; topography and orientation, site drainage and groundwater recharge; municipal and resource building codes; soils and irrigation; human and vehicular access and circulation; recreational ...
Landscape photography (often shortened to landscape photos) shows the spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on human-made features or disturbances of landscapes.
Perched on a hillside, The Hotel Hershey has family-friendly guest rooms, suites, and cottages; amenities and activities like hiking trails and family s’mores roasts; a special kids check-in ...
Brae – Scots, Ulster, and North of England term for a hillside or brow of a hill. Drumlin – an elongated whale-shaped hill formed by glacial action. Butte – an isolated hill with steep sides and a small flat top, formed by weathering. Kuppe – a rounded hill or low mountain, typical of Central Europe.
Nubbin – Small hill of bedrock with rounded residual blocks; Panhole – Depression or basin eroded into flat or gently sloping cohesive rock (Weathering pit) Tafoni – Small to large indentations in vertical to steeply sloping granular rock; Tor – Large, free-standing rock outcrop on a gentle hill summit
A gully in Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine. Gullied landscape in Somalia.. A gully is a landform created by running water, mass movement, or commonly a combination of both eroding sharply into soil or other relatively erodible material, typically on a hillside or in river floodplains or terraces.
Geoglyphs on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest. A geoglyph is a large design or motif – generally longer than 4 metres (13 ft) – produced on the ground by durable elements of the landscape, such as stones, stone fragments, gravel, or earth.