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exotic stream

Geography; Geography

A stream found in an area that is too dry to have spawned such a flow. The flow originates in some moister section.

extinct volcano

Geography; Geography

A volcano that is not expected to erupt again.

exurb

Geography; Geography

A region or district that lies outside a city and usually beyond its suburbs.

fall line

Geography; Geography

A geomorphologic unconformity between an upland region of relatively hard crystalline basement rock and a coastal plain of softer sedimentary rock.

fallow

Geography; Geography

Agricultural land that is plowed or tilled but left unseeded during a growing season. Fallowing is usually done to conserve moisture.

fault

Geography; Geography

A fracture in the Earth's crust accompanied by a displacement of one side of the fracture.

fault-block mountain

Geography; Geography

A mountain mass created by either the uplift of land between faults or the subsidence of land outside the faults.

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