Topographic features. Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Thesaurus

Topographic features

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UF↸ Physiographic features
UF↸ Relief forms

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NT2 ↓ Banks (topography) ►▼
- NT3 ↓ Embankments ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Levees
- NT3 ↓ Mud banks
- NT3 ↓ River banks
- NT3 ↓ Sand banks
- NT3 ↓ Submarine banks
NT2 ↓ Beach features ►▼
- NT3 ↓ Beach cusps
- NT3 ↓ Beach ridges ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Cheniers
- NT3 ↓ Berms
- NT3 ↓ Dunes
- NT3 ↓ Foreshore
- NT3 ↓ Nearshore bars ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Break-point bars
  - NT4 ↓ Longshore bars
  - NT4 ↓ Transverse bars
- NT3 ↓ Rip channels
- NT3 ↓ Runnels
- NT3 ↓ Spits ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Barrier spits
- NT3 ↓ Surf zone
- NT3 ↓ Tombolos
- NT3 ↓ Wave-cut platforms
NT2 ↓ Channels ►▼
- NT3 ↓ Navigational channels
- NT3 ↓ Rip channels
- NT3 ↓ Seachannels ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Deep-sea channels
NT2 ↓ Escarpments ►▼
- NT3 ↓ Fault scarps
- NT3 ↓ Submarine scarps
NT2 ↓ Landforms ►▼
- NT3 ↓ Alluvial fans
- NT3 ↓ Alluvial terraces
- NT3 ↓ Coastal landforms ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Barrier islands
  - NT4 ↓ Beaches ►▼
    - NT5 ↓ Barrier beaches
    - NT5 ↓ Raised beaches
  - NT4 ↓ Caves
  - NT4 ↓ Chenier plains
  - NT4 ↓ Cliffs
  - NT4 ↓ Coastal inlets ►▼
    - NT5 ↓ Bays
    - NT5 ↓ Drowned valleys
    - NT5 ↓ Estuaries ►
    - NT5 ↓ Fjords
    - NT5 ↓ Inlets (waterways)
    - NT5 ↓ Tidal inlets
  - NT4 ↓ Deltas
  - NT4 ↓ Headlands
  - NT4 ↓ Palaeoshorelines
  - NT4 ↓ Rocky shores
  - NT4 ↓ Stacks
  - NT4 ↓ Tidal flats
- NT3 ↓ Coasts ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Emergent shorelines
  - NT4 ↓ Relict shorelines
  - NT4 ↓ Strandlines
  - NT4 ↓ Submerged shorelines
- NT3 ↓ Continents
- NT3 ↓ Flood plains
- NT3 ↓ Islands ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Atolls
  - NT4 ↓ Barrier islands
  - NT4 ↓ Cays
  - NT4 ↓ Oceanic islands ►▼
    - NT5 ↓ Volcanic islands
- NT3 ↓ Mountains
- NT3 ↓ Plains
- NT3 ↓ Plateaux ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Submarine plateaux
- NT3 ↓ Ridges ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Continental ridges
  - NT4 ↓ Submarine ridges ►▼
    - NT5 ↓ Aseismic ridges
    - NT5 ↓ Mid-ocean ridges
    - NT5 ↓ Seismic ridges
- NT3 ↓ Valleys ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Drowned valleys
  - NT4 ↓ Rift valleys ►▼
    - NT5 ↓ Median valleys
  - NT4 ↓ River valleys
  - NT4 ↓ Submarine valleys
NT2 ↓ Submarine features ►▼
- NT3 ↓ Abyssal hills
- NT3 ↓ Abyssal plains
- NT3 ↓ Continental margins ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Active margins
  - NT4 ↓ Passive margins
- NT3 ↓ Continental ridges
- NT3 ↓ Continental rise
- NT3 ↓ Continental shelves ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Outer continental shelf
- NT3 ↓ Continental slope
- NT3 ↓ Deep-sea channels
- NT3 ↓ Deep-sea fans
- NT3 ↓ Deep-sea furrows
- NT3 ↓ Fracture zones
- NT3 ↓ Island slope
- NT3 ↓ Ocean basins
- NT3 ↓ Oceanic trenches
- NT3 ↓ Seabights
- NT3 ↓ Seaknolls
- NT3 ↓ Seamount chains
- NT3 ↓ Seamounts ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Guyots
- NT3 ↓ Shelf edge
- NT3 ↓ Shoals
- NT3 ↓ Sills
- NT3 ↓ Submarine banks
- NT3 ↓ Submarine canyons
- NT3 ↓ Submarine plateaux
- NT3 ↓ Submarine ridges ►▼
  - NT4 ↓ Aseismic ridges
  - NT4 ↓ Mid-ocean ridges
  - NT4 ↓ Seismic ridges
- NT3 ↓ Submarine scarps
- NT3 ↓ Submarine troughs
- NT3 ↓ Submarine valleys
NT2 ↓ Terraces ►▼
- NT3 ↓ Alluvial terraces

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07-Jan-2014

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07-Jan-2014

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