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Record 1 2011-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

A steep-sided residual hill, knob or mountain, generally rocky and bare, rising abruptly from an extensive nearly low-level land erosion surface.

OBS

Some of them are surrounded at their foot by gentle rock pediments. They vary in shape and size; some being only small hills less than 100 m high while others can reach much higher altitudes.

OBS

Inselberg is a word of German origin, meaning "‘island mountain."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Relief isolé raide surgissant seule au milieu d'une plaine et typique des milieux désertiques.

CONT

L’inselberg est un relief isolé, haut de quelques dizaines de mètres à 500 m et même plus, surgissant au-dessus d’une pédiplaine ou d’un glacis [...]

OBS

Étymologie : Emprunté à l’allemand.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
DEF

Relieve aislado, de vertientes casi verticales, que se yergue por encima de las rampas del glacis circundante.

CONT

Los montes isla son muestras residuales de la espesa capa del terreno excavada por la erosión: los hay que llegan a medir 500 m de altura. Constituyen un ejemplo de erosión diferencial: por su naturaleza cristalina, diferente de la del terreno circundante, y por ser su roca más dura que la de éste, han resistido a la erosión que, durante millones de años, ha rebajado uniformemente el nivel del terreno en toda la región.

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