This conical hill in Salar de Arizaro, Salta Province, Argentina called Cono de Arita constitutes a landform. Credit: rodoluca88.{{free media }}
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic[ 1] [ 2] land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body.[ 3]
Layer excavation in Augsburg, Inner Pfaffengässchen, is shown. Credit: Anja Mößbauer.{{free media }}
Def. the "cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic"[ 4] is called a feature .
Present-day Earth topography and bathymetry at 15-minute horizontal resolution. Credit: Plumbago .{{free media }}
Def. the "part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water"[ 5] or an area of ground that is a part of the Earth's or other planetary body's solid surface is called land .
This is a landscape painting. Credit: Martin Johnson Heade.{{free media }}
Def. a "portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains"[ 6] is called a landscape .
Def. each continuous surface of a landscape that is observable in its entirety and has consistence of form or regular change of form or any "geomorphological [geological][ 7] feature, such as a mountain or valley"[ 8] is called a landform .
↑ Anthropogenic Geomorphology . 2010. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3058-0 . https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-3058-0 .
↑ Howard, Jeffrey (2017). Howard, Jeffrey. ed. Anthropogenic Landforms and Soil Parent Materials, In: Anthropogenic Soils . Progress in Soil Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 25–51. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54331-4_3 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54331-4_3 . Retrieved 2022-08-12 .
↑ Wikipedia: Landform
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