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Whittow describes a saddle as "low point or col on a ridge between two summits", [1] whilst the Oxford Dictionary of English implies that a col is the lowest point on the saddle. [2] Monkhouse describes a saddle as a "broad, flat col in a ridge between two mountain summits." [3]
It may be called a col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, or wind gap. Geomorphologically, a gap is most often carved by water erosion from a freshet, stream or a river. [1] Gaps created by freshets are often, if not normally, devoid of water through much of the year, their streams being dependent upon the meltwaters of a snow pack.
A topographic saddle is analogous to the mathematical concept of a saddle surface, with a saddle point marking the minimum high point between two valleys and the lowest point along a ridge. [2] [3] On a topographic map, passes can be identified by contour lines with an hourglass shape, which indicates a low spot between two higher points. [4]
Derived from the French col ("collar, neck") from Latin collum, "neck", [2] the term tends to be associated more with mountain than hill ranges. [3] The distinction with other names for breaks in mountain ridges such as saddle , wind gap or notch is not sharply defined and may vary from place to place.
A col, also called saddle point or neutral point, is in meteorology, the point of intersection of a trough and a ridge in the pressure pattern of a weather map. It takes the form of a saddle where the air pressure is relatively higher than that of the low-pressure regions, but lower than that of the anticyclonic zones.
Saddle point, a point on a surface whose neighborhood resembles a saddle Monkey saddle , a mathematical surface defined by the equation z = x 3 − 3 x y 2 {\displaystyle z=x^{3}-3xy^{2}} Sources and sinks , vectors field in a point that are neither of the two are sometimes called saddles.
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The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.