| 单词 | pediment pass |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspediment pass pediment pass n. Geomorphology a rock-floored mountain pass connecting the top of a developing pediment on one side to another on the other side. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > area at foot of skirt1598 piedmont1860 thigh1889 pediment1897 pediment pass1930 pediplane1942 peripediment1942 1930 C. Sauer in Univ. Calif. Publ. Geogr. 3 370 Under less advanced conditions of pediment development we find narrow, flat, rock-floored tongues extending back from the general pediment, but still penetrating along the mountain sufficiently to meet another pediment slope extending into the mountain front from the other side... To distinguish this less advanced feature from the broad saddle plains..we may call it a pediment pass. 1974 C. H. Crickmay Work of River viii. 206 In a few places, the upper end of the pediment is the smoothly rounded summit of a pediment pass, or rock floored gap through a low mountain ridge. 1990 Trans. Inst. Brit. Geographers 15 314/1 There are seven main types of valley [including]..major pediment passes such as Womberella Gap. < as lemmas |
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