Landform A landform is a land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. They may be natural or may be anthropogenic (caused or influenced by human activity). Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement ...

s are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as their creating process, shape, elevation, slope, orientation, rock exposure, and soil type.

Landforms by process

Landforms organized by the processes that create them.

Aeolian landforms

s include: * * * *

Coastal and oceanic landforms

Coastal and oceanic landforms include: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *, and stump * * * * * * * *

Cryogenic landforms

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Erosion landforms

Landforms produced by

erosion Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as Surface runoff, water flow or wind) that removes soil, Rock (geology), rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust#Crust, Earth's crust and then sediment transport, tran ...

and weathering usually occur in rocky or fluvial environments, and many also appear under those headings. * * * * * * * * *

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, regional term in

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for steep chalk and limestone escarpments and cliffs of height up to 350m, often around flat-top elevations * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Paleoplain - A buried erosion plain; a particularly large and flat erosion surface * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Fluvial landforms

landforms include: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Impact landforms

Landforms created by – include: * * * * * * *

Lacustrine landforms

Lacustrine – associated with lakes – landforms include: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Mountain and glacial landforms

Mountain and – include: * formed by glacial movement * * * * or cwm * * * and * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Slope landforms

Slope landforms include: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Tectonic landforms

Landforms created by tectonic activity include: * * * * * * * * * * * *

Volcanic landforms

Volcanic landforms include: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Weathering landforms

Weathering landforms include: * * * * * * * * * (Weathering pit) * *

Landforms by shape

Positive landforms

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Depressions

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Flat landforms

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Paleoplain - A buried erosion plain; a particularly large and flat erosion surface * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Landforms, alphabetic

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * or cwm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (scarp) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *, natural * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Paleoplain - A buried erosion plain; a particularly large and flat erosion surface * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (salt flat) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * and stump * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *