![]() The word is now commonly used for the reef or rock itself. BOMBORAĪ wave that forms over a submerged offshore reef or rock, sometimes (in very calm weather or at high tide) merely swelling but in other conditions breaking heavily and producing a dangerous stretch of broken water. They can be used for aesthetics, excess rainwater drainage, separating different areas of the garden, accent walkways, and as foundations for privacy screens. ![]() ![]() Beckīerms are mounded hills of soil that are often constructed to serve a purpose in a landscaped area. A fjord is a particularly steep bay shaped by glacial activity. BayĪ recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. I suspect this usage comes from ‘bar’, short for sandbar, which boaties are advised to be wary around. A white egret has alighted on the sandbank and with thin black legs is prowling the edge in a slow stalking tread, hoping to pluck a mullet from the murky swirl of incoming water. But here, Australian author Amanda Lohrey uses it to describe the same in a body of water:Īt low tide the sandbank at the centre of the lagoon is exposed, but the tide is on the turn and the waters of the ocean are flowing in through the barway and filling the narrow channel on the northern side. The dictionary definition of barway: A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars that can be lifted out of the posts. Badlands develop on surfaces with little or no vegetative cover, overlying unconsolidated or poorly cemented materials. Compare – valley flat BadlandsĪ landscape that is intricately dissected and characterized by a very fineĭrainage network with high drainage densities and short, steep slopes with narrow interfluves. Extensive, marshy or swampy, depressed areas ofįlood plains between natural levees and valley sides or terraces. Compare – summit, shoulder, footslope, toeslope. Backslopes are commonly erosional forms produced by mass movement, colluvial action, and running water. They may or may not include cliff segments (i.e., free faces). In profile, backslopes are commonly bounded by a convex shoulder above and a concave footslope below. The hillslope profile position that forms the steepest and generally linear, It is essentially horizontal or slopes gently landward, and is divided from the foreshore by the crest of the most seaward berm. High-water line of mean spring tides and the upper limit of shore-zone processes it is acted upon by waves or covered by water only during exceptionally severe storms or unusually high tides. The upper or inner, usually dry, zone of the shore or beach, lying between the AtollĪ coral reef appearing in plan view as roughly circular, and surmounted by a chain of closely spaced, low coral islets that encircle or nearly encircle a shallow lagoon in which there is no land or islands of non-coral origin the reef is surrounded by open sea. Rays of the Sun also called slope aspect. The direction toward which a slope faces with respect to the compass or to the Soils within an ash field form solely or predominantly within the ash deposit. An ash field can be distinguished from adjacent landforms or land areas based on ash thickness, mineral composition, and physical characteristics. Volcanic ash (air fall) that can be traced to a specific source and has well defined boundaries. 1978 Oil on Masonite 91圆1cm Ash fieldĪ land area covered by a relatively thick or distinctive, surficial deposit of Eyvind Earle (American, 1916–2000) Arroyo c. ![]() Where arroyos intersect zones of ground-water discharge, they are more properly classed as intermittent stream channels. It is usually dry but can be transformed into a temporary watercourse or short-lived torrent after heavy rain within the watershed. The channel of a flat-floored, ephemeral stream, commonly with very steep to vertical banks cut in unconsolidated material sometimes called a wash. The flow of water against a shore or bank inundation by water flood the increasing of land area along a shore by deposited alluvium or by the recession of water. This post skews literary.īe aware, especially since you’re probably a wide reader and will have picked up words from all over the place, that words to describe landforms are highly regional. (Includes bodies of water.) You may be after a full glossary of landforms, in which case the Wikipedia article is comprehensive: Full list of landforms at Wikipedia. ![]()
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