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• North American Cordillera — The North American Cordillera is the North American portion of the American Cordillera which is a cordillera extending up and down the western side of the Americas. The North American Cordillera covers an extensive area of mountain ranges,… …   Wikipedia

• Olympic-Wallowa Lineament — Location of the Olympic Wallowa Lineament. Is the OWL an optical illusion? The Olympic Wallowa lineament (OWL) – first reported by cartographer Erwin Raisz in 1945 [1] on a relief map of the continental United States – is a physiographic feature… …   Wikipedia

• Origin of the Oak Ridges Moraine — For general context, see Oak Ridges Moraine. The Oak Ridges Moraine is a geological landform that runs east west across south central Ontario, Canada. It developed about 12,000 years ago, during the Wisconsin glaciation in North America. A… …   Wikipedia

• Rocky Mountain Trench — The Rocky Mountain Trench, or the Trench or The Valley of a Thousand Peaks, is a large valley in the northern part of the Rocky Mountains. It is both visually and cartographically a striking physiographic feature extending approximately… …   Wikipedia

• Great Basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km). * * * ▪ region, United States also called  Great Basin Desert  distinctive …   Universalium

• Quadrangle — may refer to:*Quadrangle (architecture), a space or courtyard, usually square or rectangular in plan, the four sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building *Quadrangle (geography), a United States Geological Survey… …   Wikipedia

• Mississippi embayment — The Mississippi embayment stretches from central Louisiana into southern Missouri …   Wikipedia

• Tiger Bay State Forest — Tiger Bay State Forest …   Wikipedia

• Quadrangle (geography) — In geology or geography, the word quadrangle usually refers to a United States Geological Survey (USGS) 7.5 minute quadrangle map, which are usually named after a local physiographic feature. The shorthand quad is also used, especially with the… …   Wikipedia

• Australian Aborigine — aborigine (def. 2). * * * ▪ people Introduction  any of the indigenous people of Australia.       Australia is the only continent where the entire indigenous population maintained a single kind of adaptation hunting and gathering (hunting and… …   Universalium

• summit —    The highest point of a physiographic feature [16] …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology