hummock in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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One small form of dune hummock is a nabkha.
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Tilted trees may also be caused by frost heaving, and subsequent palsa development, hummocks, earthflows, forested active rock glaciers, landslides, or earthquakes.
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An ice hummock is a boss or rounded knoll of ice rising above the general level of an ice-field.
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The other sediments eroded away, while the more resistant oolite weathered into hummocks, small arches and other intriguing natural sculptures.
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Because hummocks can both form and disintegrate rapidly (well within a human lifetime) they are an ideal landform to monitor for medium range environmental change.
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The term hummock, or hummocky, is also applied to extremely irregular surfaces.
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It is one of the two hummocks that gave the name of the island.
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These occur as a series of irregular parallel sand ridges and hummocks separated by hollows, which are seasonally wet.
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Eucalyptus woodland with tussock or hummock grass understorey dominates the bioregion, with significant areas of tidal flats, mangroves and littoral grassland.
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A lot of ancient plants grew in the garden, and there lied a hummock in hind part.
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