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inselberg

[′in·səl‚bərg]
(geology)
A large, steep-sided residual hill, knob, or mountain, generally rocky and bare, rising abruptly from an extensive, nearly level lowland erosion surface in arid or semiarid regions. Also known as island mountain.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Se identificaron 12 especies endemicas de inselbergs; es decir un 50 % del total de las especies muestreadas en la comunidad.
Os solos mais argilosos, principalmente os Argissolos, sao reportados para as areas ecotonais Florestas-Campinaranas, marginais as areias quartzosas hidromorficas, associados aos inselbergs, colinas, encostas dissecadas, rampas e superficies pediplanadas.
These included inselbergs (800 m above mean sea level), upper pediments (670 m asl), lower pediments (640 m asl), river valleys (600 m asl), floodplains (550 m asl), lower plains (640 m asl), and upper plains (670 m asl).
* Casimcea Plateau (located in the central-east), is a remnant of slightly wavy and raised pediplen, with outcrops of green schists ("coltani") in valleys and inselbergs, parasitized by thick loess blankets in which the valleys have been deepened recently.
Herbaceous vegetation of seasonally wet habitats on inselbergs and lateritic crusts in West and Central Africa.Folia Geobot., (42): 29-61.
L'erosion continue son travail de sape, jusqu'a creer de grandes collines blanches, solitaires, appelees "inselbergs" (Inselberg est un mot allemand qui veut dire "ile" "montagne", applique a des reliefs isoles semblant emerger d'une etendue plate.
Seguindo a trama, Dora e Josue partem do Rio de Janeiro em direcao a cidade (imaginaria e metonimica) de Bom Jesus, no sertao pernambucano, sendo apresentados varios recortes paisagisticos do Brasil desde a metropole nacional ate os sertoes semiaridos da Bahia, com destaque para a paisagem dos celebres campos de inselbergs de Milagres, recorrentes na cinematografia brasileira, como foi visto em Os fuzis.
The landscape is characterized by old plains, broken by steep sided outcrop dome rocks (Inselbergs) that may occur singularly or in crops of ridges.
Inselbergs in the sea: vegetation of granite outcrops on the islands of Mahe, Praslin and Silhouette (Seychelles).