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Monitor roof: A roof with a monitor; 'a raised structure running part or all of the way along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof.' Butterfly roof (V-roof, [8] London roof [9]): A V-shaped roof resembling an open book. A kink separates the roof into two parts running towards each other at an ...
This page is a glossary of architecture . A flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column. A sculptural embellishment of an arch. The subsidiary space alongside the body of a building, separated from it by columns, piers, or posts. The space enclosed in a church between the outer gate or railing of the rood ...
A ditch, wall, embankment, or ridge, natural or man-made, that is an obstacle to something else; another name for a levee. 2. In geology , an intrusion in which molten rock has ascended through an approximately vertical fissure and solidified into a wall of rock that is often harder or less permeable than the rocks of the surrounding strata.
t. e. An abyssal plain is an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 metres (9,800 and 19,700 ft). Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid-ocean ridge, abyssal plains cover more than 50% of the Earth 's surface. [ 1][ 2] They are among the flattest, smoothest, and least ...
Ridge and Furrow, in East Leake, Nottinghamshire. Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges ( Medieval Latin: sliones) and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the Middle Ages, typical of the open-field system. It is also known as rig (or rigg) and furrow, mostly in the North East of England and in Scotland.
Description. The keeled box turtle's upper shell ( carapace) has three large, raised ridges and is serrated on the back end. The lower shell ( plastron) is different variations of brown in color, ranging from light brown to dark brown. The upper jaw is strong, while the snout is short and curved. The feet are only partially webbed, which ...
However vertical movement of blocks produces much more dramatic results. Landforms (mountains, hills, ridges, lakes, valleys, etc.) are sometimes formed when the faults have a large vertical displacement. Adjacent raised blocks and down-dropped blocks can form high escarpments. Often the movement of these blocks is accompanied by tilting, due ...
Homoclinal ridge – Ridge with a moderate sloping backslope and steeper frontslope; Hoodoo – Tall, thin spire of relatively soft rock usually topped by harder rock; Horst – Raised fault block bounded by normal faults; Impact crater – Circular depression in a solid astronomical body formed by the impact of a smaller object