Ravine

This article is about the valley formation. For other uses, see Ravine (disambiguation).
Homole Ravine, Pieniny, Poland
Inside a ravine in Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, Montana, United States.

A ravine is a landform narrower than a canyon and is often the product of streamcutting erosion.[1] Ravines are typically classified as larger in scale than gullies, although smaller than valleys.[1]

Definition

A ravine is generally a fluvial slope landform of relatively steep (cross-sectional) sides, on the order of twenty to seventy percent in gradient. Ravines may or may not have active streams flowing along the downslope channel which originally formed them; moreover, often they are characterized by intermittent streams, since their geographic scale may not be sufficiently large to support a perennial watercourse.[2]A ravine is a deep valley which is formed due to linear/dendritic fluvial erosion of loose unconsolidated and bare soils by intricate network of rills and gullies.

Other terms for ravine include

Notes

  1. 1 2 Definition of "ravine" at Merriam-Webster
  2. ↑ Christopher G. Morris; Academic Press (1992). Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology. Gulf Professional Publishing. pp. 1802–. ISBN 978-0-12-200400-1. Retrieved 1 October 2012.

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