List of landforms

Landforms are categorised by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure, and soil type.

Landforms by process

Landforms organized by the processes that create them.

Aeolian landforms

Aeolian landforms are formed by the wind and include:

Barchan Blowout Desert pavement Desert varnish Dune Dreikanter

Erg Loess Dry lake Sandhill Ventifact Yardang

Coastal and oceanic landforms

Coastal and oceanic landforms include:

Coastal and oceanic landforms.

Abyssal fan Abyssal plain Archipelago Atoll Arch Ayre Barrier bar and barrier island Bay Baymouth bar Beach and raised beach Beach cusps Beach ridge Bight Blowhole Channel Cape Calanque Cliff Coast Continental shelf Coral reef

Cove Cuspate foreland Dune system Estuary Firth Fjard Fjord Geo Gulf Headland Inlet Island, Islet Isthmus Lagoon Machair Marine terrace Mid-ocean ridge Oceanic basin Oceanic plateau Oceanic ridge Oceanic trench

Peninsula Ria River delta Salt marsh Sea cave Seamount, Seamount chains Shoal Shore Sound Spit Strait Strandflat Stack, and stump Submarine canyon Surge channel Tessellated pavement Tidal marsh Tide pool Tombolo Volcanic arc Wave cut platform

Erosion landforms

Landforms produced by erosion and weathering usually occur in coastal or fluvial environments, and many appear under those headings as well.

Badlands Bornhardt Butte Canyon Cave Cirque Cliff Cuesta Dissected plateau Erg Etchplain Exhumed river channel Fjord Flatiron Gulch Gully

Hogback Hoodoo Homoclinal ridge Inselberg Inverted relief Lavaka Limestone pavement Monadnock Mesa Natural arch Paleoplain Pediment Pediplain Peneplain Planation surface Potrero

Ridge Roche moutonnée Rock formations Strike ridge Structural bench Structural terrace Tea table Tepui Tessellated pavement Truncated spur Tor Valley

Fluvial landforms

Fluvial landforms include:

Ait Alluvial fan Anabranch Arroyo and (wash) Backswamp Bar Bayou Bench Braided channel Cave Cliff Cut bank Crevasse splay Confluence Drainage basin Drainage divide Endorheic basin

Esker Exhumed river channel Floodplain Fluvial island Fluvial terrace Gorge and canyon Gully Natural levee Marsh Meander Oxbow lake Point bar Plunge pool Rapid Riffle River River delta

River island Rock-cut basin Shut-in Thalweg Towhead Shoal Spring Stream Stream pool Swamp Valley and Vale Wadi Waterfall Watershed Yazoo stream

Impact landforms

Landforms created by extrerrestrial impacts include:

Central peak Complex crater Cratered landscapes Ejecta blanket Impact crater Simple crater

Karst landforms

Karst landforms include:

Abîme Calanque Cave Cenote Cockpit karst Doline Foiba Karst fenster Karst valleys

Limestone pavement Mogote Polje Scowle Sinkhole Tower karst Turlough Uvala

Lacustrine landforms

Lacustrine landforms include:

Beach and raised beach Carolina bay Dry lake Endorheic basin Lacustrine plain Lacustrine terraces Lake

Oasis Oxbow lake Parallel Roads of Glen Roy Playa lake Pond Proglacial lake Salt pan (salt flat)

Mountain and glacial landforms

Mountain and glacial landforms include:

Arête Cirque Crevasse Corrie or cwm Cove (mountain) Dirt cone Drumlin and drumlin field Esker Fjord Fluvial terrace Glacial horn Glacier Glacier cave

Glacier foreland Hanging valley Hill Kame Kame delta Kettle Monadnock Moraine and Ribbed moraines Moulin (geology) Mountain Mountain pass or col Mountain range Nunatak

Proglacial lake Outwash fan and outwash plain Pingo Rift valley Roche moutonnée Sandur Side valley Summit Trim line Truncated spur Tunnel valley Valley U-shaped valley

Slope landforms

Slope landforms include:

Bluff Butte Cliff Cuesta Dale Defile Dell Doab Draw Escarpment (scarp)

Flat (landform) Glen Gully Hill Knoll Interfluve Mesa Mountain pass or col Plain Plateau

Ravine Ridge Rock shelter Scree Strath Summit Terrace Terracettes Vale Valley Valley shoulder

Tectonic landforms

Landforms created by tectonic activity include:

Dome Faceted spur Fault scarp Graben Horst Mid-ocean ridge Mud volcano Oceanic trench Pull-apart basin Rift valley Sand volcano

Volcanic landforms

Volcanic landforms include:

Caldera Complex volcano Crater lake Cryovolcano Geyser Guyot Lava dome Lava flow Lava lake Lava plain Lava spine Lava tube

Maar Malpais Mamelon Mid-ocean ridge Pit crater Pseudocrater Shield volcano Stratovolcano Subglacial mound Submarine volcano Supervolcano

Tuya Vent Volcanic cone Volcanic craters (not impact craters) Volcanic dam Volcanic field Volcanic group Volcanic island Volcanic plateau Volcanic plug Volcano

Landforms, alphabetic

Abîme Abyssal fan Abyssal plain Ait Alluvial fan Anabranch Arch Archipelago Arjte Arroyo and (wash) Atoll Ayre Badlands Bar Barchan Barrier bar Barrier island Bay Baymouth bar Bayou Beach Beach cusps Beach ridge Bench Bight Blowhole Blowout Bluff Bornhardt Braided channel Butte Calanque Caldera Canyon Cape Carolina bay Cave Cenote Channel Cirque Corrie or cwm Cliff Coast Complex crater Complex volcano Confluence Continental shelf Coral reef Cove Cove (mountain) Crater lake Crevasse splay Crevasse Cryovolcano Cuesta Cuspate foreland Cut bank Dale Defile Dell Delta, River Desert pavement Desert varnish Dirt cone Dissected plateau Doab Doline Dome Drainage basin Drainage divide Draw Dreikanter Drumlin Drumlin field Dry lake Dune Dune system Ejecta blanket Endorheic basin Erg Escarpment (scarp) Esker Estuary Exhumed river channel Faceted spur Fault scarp Firth Fjard Fjord Flat Flatiron Floodplain Fluvial island Fluvial terrace Foibe

Geo Geyser Glacial horn Glacier cave Glacier foreland Glacier Parallel Roads of Glen Roy Glen Gorge Graben Gulf Gully Guyot Hanging valley Headland Hill Hogback Homoclinal ridge Hoodoo Horst Impact crater Inlet Interfluve Inverted relief Island Islet Isthmus Kame delta Kame Karst Karst fenster Karst valley Kettle Knoll Lacustrine plain Lagoon Lake Lava dome Lava flow Lava lake Lava plain Lava spine Lava tube Lavaka Levee, natural Limestone pavement Loess Lacustrine terraces Maar Machair Malpaís Mamelon Marine terrace Marsh Meander Mesa Mid-ocean ridge Mogote Monadnock Moraine Moulin Mountain Mountain pass or col Mountain range Mud volcano Natural arch Nunatak Oasis Oceanic basin Oceanic plateau Oceanic ridge Oceanic trench Outwash fan Outwash plain Oxbow lake Pediment Pediplain Peneplain Peninsula Pingo Pit crater Plain Plateau Playa lake Plunge pool Point bar Polje Pond Potrero Proglacial lake Pseudocrater Pull-apart basin

Raised beach Rapid Ravine Ria Ribbed moraines Ridge Riffle Rift valley River River delta River island Roche moutonnée Rock formations Rock shelter Rock-cut basin Salt marsh Salt pan (salt flat) Sand volcano Sandhill Sandur Scowle Scree Sea cave Seamount Shield volcano Shoal Shore Shut-in Side valley Sinkhole Sound Spit Spring Stack and stump Strait Strandflat Strath Stratovolcano Stream pool Stream Strike ridge Structural bench Structural terrace Subglacial mound Submarine canyon Submarine volcano Summit Supervolcano Surge channel Swamp Tea table Tepui Terrace Terracettes Tessellated pavement Thalweg Tidal marsh Tide pool Tombolo Tor Tower karst Towhead Trim line Truncated spur Tunnel valley Turlough Tuya U-shaped valley Uvala Vale Valley Valley shoulder Vale Vent Ventifact Volcanic arc Volcanic cone Volcanic craters Volcanic dam Volcanic field Volcanic group Volcanic island Volcanic plateau Volcanic plug Volcano Wadi Waterfall Watershed Wave cut platform Yardang

See also

• Geomorphology
• Ocean
• Sea