Interfluve

 ( Landforms ) 

An interfluve is a narrow, elongated and plateau-like or ridge-like landform between two .Ernst Neef (ed.): Riedel. In: Derselbe: Das Gesicht der Erde (Taschenbuch der physischen Geographie). Verlag Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt/M, 1970, p. 774.Leser, Hartmut, ed. (2005). Wörterbuch Allgemeine Geographie, 13th ed., dtv, Munich, p. 766, . More generally, an interfluve is defined as an area of higher ground between two rivers in the same drainage system.Whittow, John (1984). Dictionary of Physical Geography. London: Penguin, 1984, p. 275. .

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Formation These landforms are created by earth flow ("solifluction"). They can also be former that are subsequently bisected by fluvial erosion. In cases where there is a deposit of younger sedimentary beds (loess, colluvium) the interfluves have a rounder and less rugged appearance. A consequence of interfluve formation is the so-called "interfluvial landscape."

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Interfluvial landscapes

• In South Burgenland and in the East Styrian Hills of Austria Sicherung und Entwicklung der charakteristischen Riedellandschaft zwischen Dürrer Aurach und Aubach at www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at. Retrieved 1 Jan 2015
• the majority of the natural region of the Iller-Lech Plateau in Swabia and Upper Swabia (Baden-Württemberg) with the exception of the major river valleys of the Danube, Iller and Lech, the Donauried and the Federsee as well as the Old Drift landscapes south of the natural region.
• Volga-Ural interfluve

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See also

• Doab
• Interamnia (disambiguation)

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