This web page has links to examples of landforms depicted on topographic maps.

Use one of the following links to quickly reach a topic: Geologic Structures Igneous Activity Mass Movement Streams Underground Water Glaciers Wind Waves and Currents

• Landforms due to Geologic Structures
  • Anticline
  • Structural Basin
  • Structural Dome (Example 1)
  • Structural Dome (Example 2)
  • Fault1 (Example 1)
  • Fault (Example 2)
  • Fault (Example 3)
  • Faults (Example 4)
  • Fault (Example 5)
  • Horizontal Layers
  • Inclined Layers
  • Joints
  • Salt Dome
  • Syncline (plunging)
  • Unconformity (shown on geologic map)
• Landforms due to Glaciers
  • Ancient Shorelines
  • Aretes (Example 1)
  • Arete (Example 2)
  • Cirques (Example 1)
  • Cirques (Example 2)
  • Cirque Glacier
  • Col
  • Crevasses
  • Drumlins (Example 1)
  • Drumlins (Example 2)
  • Esker (Example 1)
  • Esker (Example 2)
  • Finger Lakes
  • Ground Moraine
  • Hanging Valleys
  • Horns (Example 1)
  • Horns (Example 2)
  • Ice Sheet
  • Kame Terraces (Example 1)
  • Kame Terrace (Example 2)
  • Kettles
  • Lateral Moraines
  • Medial Moraine
  • Outwash Channels with Misfit Streams
  • Pater Noster Lakes
  • Piedmont Glacier
  • Rock Steps
  • Tarns (Example 1)
  • Tarns (Example 2)
  • Terminal Moraine (Example 1)
  • Terminal Moraine (Example 2)
  • U-shaped Valley
  • Valley Glaciers
• Landforms due to Igneous Activity
  • Caldera
  • Cinder Cone (Example 1)
  • Cinder Cone (Example 2)
  • Cinder Cone (Example 3)
  • Crater
  • Dikes
  • Lava (Example 1)
  • Lava (Example 2)
  • Lava Dome Volcanoes
  • Lava Tube
  • Shield Volcano (Example 1)
  • Shield Volcano (Example 2, summit area only)
  • Stock
  • Composite Cone (or Stratovolcano) (Example 1)
  • Composite Cone (or Stratovolcano) (Example 2)
  • Volcanic Neck (Example 1)
  • Volcanic Neck (Example 2)
• Landforms due to Mass Movement (Gravity)
  • Landslide (Example 1)
  • Landslide (Example 2)
  • Landslide (Example 3)
  • Subsidence (Example 1)
  • Subsidence (Example 2)
• Landforms due to Streams (Running Water)
  • Abandoned Meander
  • Alluvial Fan (Example 1)
  • Alluvial Fans (Example 2)
  • Arroyo (Example 1)
  • Arroyo (Example 2)
  • Backswamp
  • Bajada
  • Beheaded Stream
  • Braided Stream (Example 1)
  • Braided Stream (Example 2)
  • Channel Bars
  • Cut Bank
  • Cut Off
  • Delta (Example 1)
  • Delta (Example 2)
  • Distributaries (on Delta)
  • Divide (Continental)
  • Drainage Basin (Divide shown by black dashed line)
  • Drainage Patterns
    • Annular Drainage Pattern
    • Dendritic Drainage Pattern (Example 1)
    • Dendritic Drainage Pattern (Example 2)
    • Deranged Drainage Pattern
    • Parallel Drainage Pattern
    • Radial Drainage Pattern
    • Trellis Drainage Pattern
  • Entrenched Meander
  • Entrenched Meander (abandoned)
  • Floodplain (Example 1)
  • Floodplain (Example 2)
  • Inselbergs
  • Intermittent Streams (Example 1)
  • Intermittent Stream (Example 2)
  • Meanders (Example 1)
  • Meanders (Example 2)
  • Meander Core
  • Meander Scar
  • Natural Bridge
  • Natural Levee
  • Oxbow Lake
  • Pediment
  • Pirate Stream
  • Playa (Example 1)
  • Playa (Example 2)
  • Point Bars
  • Rapids (Example 1)
  • Rapids (Example 2)
  • Tributaries
  • V-shaped Valley (Example 1)
  • V-shaped Valley (Example 2)
  • Waterfall
  • Water Gap (Example 1)
  • Water Gaps (Example 2)
  • Wind Gap (Example 1)
  • Wind Gaps (Example 2)
• Landforms due to Underground Water (Groundwater)
  • Artesian Springs
  • Cave (Example 1)
  • Cave (Example 2)
  • Gaining Stream
  • Karsts (or Sinkholes) (Example 1)
  • Karsts (or Sinkholes) (Example 2)
  • Karsts (or Sinkholes) Example 3)
  • Losing Stream (or Disappearing Stream)
  • Springs
• Landforms due to Wind
  • Barchans
  • Deflation Basins (Example 1)
  • Deflation Basins (Example 2)
  • Deflation Basins (Example 3)
  • Longitudinal Dunes (Example 1)
  • Longitudinal Dunes (Example 2)
  • Parabolic Dunes
  • Transverse Dunes (Example 1)
  • Transverse Dunes (Example 2)
• Landforms due to Waves and Currents
  • Bay
  • Baymouth Bar (Example1)
  • Baymouth Bar (Example 2)
  • Beach (Example 1)
  • Beach (Example 2)
  • Estuary (Example 1)
  • Estuary (Example 2)
  • Fjord
  • Headland
  • Marine Terraces (Example 1)
  • Marine Terraces (Example 2)
  • Offshore Bar (Example 1)
  • Offshore Bar (Example 2)
  • Sea Cave
  • Sea Cliff
  • Sea Stacks
  • Spit (Example 1)
  • Spit (Example 2)
  • Spit (Example 3)
  • Tombolo (Example 1)
  • Tombolo (Example 2)
  • Wave-cut Terrace (Example 1)
  • Wave-cut Terrace (Example 2)