Pit and mounds are small, persistent microtopographical features that present themselves after a disturbance event occurs and uproots trees via windthrow...

hilly terrain. Pits from tree throws, together with mounds from decaying fallen trees, are part of the characteristic pit-and-mound topography of old growth...

air Pit-and-mound topography: terrain caused by windthrown trees Reaction wood Allen, Douglas C. (1999). "Identifying Trees at Risk from Ice and Wind"...

mixed-age stands, presence of canopy openings due to tree falls, pit-and-mound topography, down wood in various stages of decay, standing snags (dead trees)...

for new growth using pit-and-mound topography. Trees are tipped over to create mounds that turn up more nutrients in the soil and allow for more sunlight...

Cahokia Mounds /kəˈhoʊkiə/ (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi...

on the planet. A crater has classically been described as: "a bowl-shaped pit that is formed by a volcano, an explosion, or a meteorite impact". On Earth...

irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the...

varying sizes and stages of decomposition, standing and down, accompanied by decadence in live dominant trees. Pit-and-mound topography can be observed...

have helped drain the area around the mounds. “The canals demonstrate a complex knowledge of local topography and hydraulic features.” The Ortona canals...

State Park, and the Kickapoo Valley Reserve. Karst topography is most prominent in Wisconsin. Eagle Cave in Blue River, WI and Cave of the Mounds, near Blue...

Germany consisting of a fortified settlement and several burial mounds, "a princely seat of the late Hallstatt and early La Tène periods." Archaeological discoveries...

to assess mound temperatures; each day during the breeding season, the male digs a pit into his mound and sticks his head in. If the mound's core temperature...

excavation site (commonly a strip mining pit) in spoil banks. A dredge in placer mining is used to dig up volumes of gravel and other earth materials, which are...

including: pits, peaks, channels, ridges, passes, pools and plains. Terrain (or relief) is the third or vertical dimension of land surface. Topography is the...

Tel Shor (Hebrew: תל שור, "mound of the bull"), or Tell Thorah (Arabic: تل ثورة, Tell Thwrah) is an archaeological site in the center of the western Jezreel...

are venomous snakes that form the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers). All rattlesnakes are vipers. Rattlesnakes...

by midden or shell heap culture and is divided into Early, Middle, and Late Shell Mound periods. The Early Shell Mound period was a hunter-gatherer society...

classified in terms of their origin, geographical location, depth, and topography. For example a tropical coral fringing reef, or a temperate rocky intertidal...

Glacial melt water landform Kame – Mound formed on a retreating glacier and deposited on land Karst – Topography from dissolved soluble rocks Karst fenster –...

lower mound, in a spot whose moderate topography suggests the possibility of a gate here, a north–south stone wall was revealed, ca. 4 m wide and abutted...

pottery found Mound 5 - 500 × 300 meters in area, 3 meters high, 1.5 kilometers SE of Abū Šahrain, Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods Mound 6 - 300 × 200...

the interwar period, a gravel pit was established within the triangle marked by the villages of Maliszewa, Poniatowo, and Wólka Okrąglik in Gmina Kosów...

excavation was conducted on a site the islanders referred to as "Pontiacs Mound" during a 2008 excavation. The results of the test suggested that it "appears...

the Old English word hlâw is almost always used to refer to a burial mound, and speculated that this 'great heap of stones' may have been an ancient barrow...

terrace zone material. This northwestern unit topography is formed of irregular mounds and uneven ridges and laterally blends into the hummocky faulted terrace...

first mounds. Rapid civilizational development occurred during the Mississippian period, when Indigenous peoples developed organized chiefdoms and constructed...

the summit. The summit's pit craters are named West Pit, East Pit, and Pele's Pit. Pele's Pit is the youngest of this group and is located at the southern...

hectares, containing numerous rectangular houses and surrounded by a rampart. A large tumulus (burial mound) was built at the centre of the settlement between...

Lincolnshire Wolds and the parish contains the highest point in North East Lincolnshire at 384 feet (117 m). The geology and topography of Wold Newton are...