There are different ways to classify landforms, but mine has just three categories: landforms that are built (depositional), landforms that are carved (erosional), and landforms that are made by movements of the Earth's crust (tectonic). Here are the most common depositional landforms.
See also: Erosional Landforms Tectonic Landforms
- Alluvial Fan, CaliforniaWide cones of stream sediment
- Bajada, CaliforniaA coalescence of fans
- Bar, CaliforniaSandy barrier between river and sea
- Barrier Island, New JerseyGiant sand bars
- Beach, CaliforniaThe most comfortable depositional landform
- Delta, AlaskaTriangular river-mouth deposits
- Dune, CaliforniaOf the Kelso Dunes
- Floodplain, North CarolinaWide flats of river mud
- Landslide, CaliforniaLandforms in fast motion
- Lava Flow, OregonPoured and cooled
- Levee, RomaniaNatural berms along rivers
- Mud Volcano, CaliforniaGentler versions of the lava kind
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