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Kettle – Depression or hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters; Kīpuka – Area of land surrounded by one or more younger lava flows; Knoll – Small hill; Lacustrine plain – Lakes filled by sediment; Lagoon – Shallow body of water separated from a larger one by a narrow landform
A watering hole is a natural depression where water collects and animals come to drink. Karst closed depression with permanent lake Stymfalia, Peloponnese, Greece. Seasonal abundant precipitation drained by 3 sinkholes. In geology, a depression is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions form by various mechanisms.
For example, a representative fraction of 1 ⁄ 1,000,000, often written as 1:1,000,000 or 1:1 mn, means that one inch (or one centimetre) on the map itself is equivalent to one million inches (or centimetres) in the real world. One statute mile is equal to 63,360 inches, so 1,000,000 inches is approximately 16 miles. [4] republic
A unit of area traditionally defined as the area of a plot of land one chain (66 feet) by one furlong (660 feet), equivalent to 43,560 square feet (0.001563 sq mi; 4,047 m 2), or about 0.40 hectare. active volcano A volcano that is currently erupting, or one that has erupted within the last 10,000 years (the Holocene) or during recorded history ...
A volcanic crater is an approximately circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity. [1] It is typically a bowl-shaped feature containing one or more vents. During volcanic eruptions , molten magma and volcanic gases rise from an underground magma chamber , through a conduit, until they reach the crater's vent, from where the ...
One satellite community in Arizona already experienced this. Rio Verde Foothills, a suburb of Scottsdale, sued the city in 2023 after it cut the affluent community’s water off entirely.
Hollow: A term used regionally for a small valley surrounded by mountains or ridges. In Ireland, New England, Appalachia, and the Ozarks of Arkansas and Missouri, a hollow is a small valley or dry stream bed; often called a holler. Longitudinal valley: An elongated valley found between two nearly-parallel mountain chains.
Some 98% of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water. Averaging at least 1.6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2.5 km below sea level; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur (e.g., Lake ...