The landforms of Earth are generally divided into physiographic regions, consisting of physiographic provinces, which in turn consist of physiographic sections,[1][2][3] though some others use different terminology, such as realms, regions and subregions.[4] Some areas have further categorized their respective areas into more detailed subsections.[5][6]
| Landmass | Region / Division | Province | Section
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | African Alpine System[citation needed] | Atlas Mountains | Mediterranean Atlas |
| Southern Atlas | |||
| High Interior Plateaus | |||
| Canary Islands | |||
| African massive[citation needed] | Sahara | Central Sahara Domes | |
| Encircling Plateaus And Lowlands | |||
| Central Sahara Ergs | |||
| Western Sahara | |||
| Eastern Sahara | |||
| Sudan | Niger Basin | ||
| Chad Basin | |||
| Middle Nile Basin | |||
| Mid-African | West Guinea Highlands | ||
| Guinea Coast | |||
| Cameroon Mountains | |||
| Ubangi-Shari Upland | |||
| South Guinea Highlands | |||
| Coastal Lowlands | |||
| Congo Basin | |||
| South African Platform[citation needed] | |||
| Kalahari Region | Encircling Uplands | ||
| Lunda Swell | |||
| Matabele Upland | |||
| Veldt | |||
| High Karroo | |||
| Damara-Nama Upland | |||
| Namib Desert | |||
| Cape Mountains | |||
| Natal Terrace Belt | |||
| Mozambique Plain | |||
| Madagascar | |||
| East African Highlands[citation needed] | Rift Valley | Coastal Belt | |
| High Interior Plateau | |||
| Western Rift Belt | |||
| Eastern Rift Belt | |||
| Abyssinian | Somali Plateau | ||
| Ethiopian Massif | |||
| Abyssinian Graben | |||
| Etbai Range
| |||
| Americas | Appalachian | Atlantic Coast Uplands | |
| Eastern Newfoundland Atlantic | |||
| Maritime Acadian Highlands | |||
| Maritime Plain | |||
| Notre Dame and Mégantic Mountains | |||
| Western Newfoundland Mountains | Newfoundland Highlands | ||
| Newfoundland Coastal Lowland | |||
| Piedmont province | Piedmont Upland | ||
| Piedmont Lowlands | |||
| Blue Ridge province | Northern section | ||
| Southern section | |||
| Valley And Ridge province | Tennessee section | ||
| Middle section | |||
| Hudson Valley | |||
| St. Lawrence Valley | Champlain section | ||
| Northern section | |||
| Appalachian Plateaus province | Mohawk section | ||
| Catskill section | |||
| Southern New York section | |||
| Allegheny Mountain section | |||
| Kanawha section | |||
| Cumberland Plateau section | |||
| Cumberland Mountain section | |||
| New England province | Seaboard Lowland section | ||
| New England Upland section | |||
| White Mountain section | |||
| Green Mountain section | |||
| Taconic section | |||
| Arctic Lowlands | Eastern Arctic Lowlands | ||
| Western Arctic Lowlands | |||
| Atlantic Plain | Continental Shelf | ||
| Coastal Plain | Embayed section | ||
| Sea Island section | |||
| Floridian section | |||
| East Gulf Coastal Plain | |||
| Mississippi Alluvial Plain | |||
| West Gulf Coastal Plain | |||
| Gulf Coast Plain And Yucatan Peninsula | |||
| Canadian Shield | Laurentian Upland | Superior Upland | |
| Adirondack province | |||
| Kazan | |||
| Davis | |||
| Hudson | Hudson Bay Lowlands | ||
| James | |||
| Innuitian Region | Eastern High Arctic Glacier | ||
| Western High Arctic | |||
| Interior Highlands | Ozark Plateaus | Springfield-Salem Plateaus | |
| Boston Mountains | |||
| Ouachita province | Arkansas Valley | ||
| Ouachita Mountains | |||
| Interior Plains | Interior Low Plateaus | Highland Rim section | |
| Lexington Plain | |||
| Nashville Basin | |||
| Great Plains | Missouri Plateau, Glaciated | ||
| Missouri Plateau, Unglaciated | |||
| Black Hills | |||
| High Plains | |||
| Plains Border | |||
| Arctic Coastal Plain | |||
| Colorado Piedmont | |||
| Raton section | |||
| Pecos Valley | |||
| Edwards Plateau | |||
| Central Texas section | |||
| Central Lowland | Dissected Till Plains | ||
| Eastern Lake section | |||
| Osage Plains | |||
| Till Plains | |||
| Western Lake section | |||
| Wisconsin Driftless section | |||
| Mackenzie Delta | Mackenzie River | ||
| Yukon Coastal Plain | |||
| Manitoba Lowlands | |||
| Northern Boreal Plains | Great Slave Plain | ||
| Great Bear Plain | |||
| Anderson Plain | |||
| Peel Plain And Plateau | |||
| Colville Hills | |||
| Prairie Grasslands | Alberta Plain | ||
| Saskatchewan Hills | |||
| Southern Boreal Plains And Plateaus | Alberta Plateau | ||
| Saskatchewan Plain | |||
| Intermontane Plateaus | Columbia Plateau | Walla Walla Plateau | |
| Blue Mountain section | |||
| Payette section | |||
| Snake River Plain | |||
| Harney section | |||
| Colorado Plateaus | High Plateaus Of Utah | ||
| Uinta Basin | |||
| Canyon Lands | |||
| Navajo section | |||
| Grand Canyon section | |||
| Datil-Mogollon Section | |||
| Acoma-Zuni Section | |||
| Basin And Range Province | Great Basin | ||
| Mojave Desert—Mojave Ranges | |||
| Salton Trough—Colorado Desert Ranges | |||
| Sonoran Desert—Sonoran Desert Ranges | |||
| Mexican Highland | |||
| Sacramento section | |||
| Mexican Altiplano | |||
| Northern Plateaus | Interior Plateau | ||
| Yukon-Tanana Uplands | Yukon Plateau | ||
| Cassiar Mountains | |||
| Skeena Mountains | |||
| Liard Plain | |||
| Hyland Plateau | |||
| Pelly Mountains | |||
| Pacific Coast Ranges | Cascade-Sierra Mountains | Northern Cascade Mountains | |
| Middle Cascade Mountains | |||
| Southern Cascade Mountains | |||
| Sierra Nevada | |||
| Pacific Border province | Aleutian Islands | ||
| Boundary Ranges | |||
| Puget Trough | |||
| Olympic Mountains | |||
| Oregon Coast Range | |||
| Klamath Mountains | |||
| California Trough | |||
| California Coast Ranges | |||
| Transverse Ranges (Los Angeles Mountains) | |||
| Lower California province | Peninsular Ranges | ||
| Rocky Mountain System | Wyoming Basin | ||
| Columbia Mountains | Columbia Highlands | ||
| Interior Plateau | |||
| Southern Rocky Mountain Trench | |||
| Arctic Mountains | Brooks Range | ||
| Arctic Foothills | |||
| Northern Rocky Mountains | |||
| Middle Rocky Mountains | |||
| Southern Rocky Mountains | |||
| Sierra Madre System | Sierra Madre Occidental | Lava (Rhyolite) Plateau | |
| Sonoran High Ranges | |||
| Eastern Upland With Basins | |||
| Sierra Madre Oriental | Northern section | ||
| The High Sierra | |||
| Cross Ranges | |||
| Lower Ranges | |||
| Sierra Madre del Sur | Balsas-Mexcala Basin | ||
| Oaxaca Upland | |||
| Northeast Folded Ranges | |||
| Southern Slope | |||
| Northern section | |||
| Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt | |||
| Southern Mexican Highlands | |||
| Baja California Peninsula | Peninsular Ranges | ||
| Southern Horst | |||
| Llano De La Magdalena | |||
| Colorado Delta | |||
| The Buried Ranges | Sonoran Desert | ||
| Deltas | |||
| Sinaloa Coast | |||
| Piedmont Ranges | |||
| Central Meseta | |||
| Gulf Coastal Lowland | |||
| Neovolcanic Plateau | |||
| Chiapas-Guatemala Highlands | |||
| Gulf Coast Plain And Yucatan Peninsula | Pitted Lowlands | ||
| Yucatan Platform | |||
| East Coast | |||
| Andean Mountain System | Northern Andes | Cordillera Occidental | |
| Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru | |||
| Cordillera Central | |||
| Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru | |||
| Middle Magdalena Basin | |||
| Maracaibo Basin | |||
| Central Andes | Cordillera Occidental | ||
| Atacama Desert | |||
| Altiplano | |||
| Cordillera Oriental | |||
| Southern Andes | Fuegian Andes | ||
| Patagonian Andes | |||
| Andean Piedmont | |||
| Brazilian Highlands | Brazilian Oldland | ||
| Goyaz Massif | |||
| Mato Grosso Plateau | |||
| Guiana Shield | |||
| Chiquitos Plateau | |||
| Parana Plateau | |||
| Coastal Plain | |||
| Guiana Highlands | Guiana Coastal Plain | ||
| Amazon Plain | Llanos De Mojos | ||
| Orinoco Basin | |||
| Parana-Paraguay Plain | Gran Chaco | ||
| Pantanal | |||
| Argentine Mesopotamia | |||
| Pampas | |||
| Monte | |||
| Patagonian Plateau |
| ||
| Antarctica | East Antarctica | ||
| West Antarctica |
| ||
| Australia | East Australian Basins | Carpentaria Basin | Gulf of Carpentaria |
| Kynuna Platform | |||
| Great Artesian Basin | Wilcannia Threshold | ||
| Murray Basin | Naracoorte Platform | ||
| Encounter Shelf | |||
| East Australian Cordillera | Cape York Platform | Coen Belt | |
| Torres Strait Islands | |||
| North Queensland Highlands | Chillagoe Belt | ||
| Normanby Platform | |||
| Atherton Tableland | |||
| Mount Emu Lava Plains | |||
| Cairns Littoral | |||
| Great Barrier Reef | Murray Islands | ||
| Central Queensland Highlands | Bowen-Springsure Belt | ||
| Buckland Basalt Tablelands | |||
| Rockhampton-Brisbane Belt | Maryborough Basin | ||
| Toowoomba Basalt Plateaus | |||
| New England Block | Clarence Basin | ||
| Hunter-Hawkesbury Sunkland | Sydney Basin | ||
| Warrumbungle-Liverpool Basalt Ranges | |||
| Blue Mountains | |||
| Central Highlands Of New South Wales | Western Slopes | ||
| Cobar Platform | |||
| Kosciusko Massif | Gourock-Monaro Belt | ||
| Eastern Victorian Highlands | |||
| Western Victorian Highlands | Grampians | ||
| Western Basalt Plains Of Victoria | Otway Hills | ||
| Gippsland | South Gippsland Hills | ||
| Port Phillip Sunkland | |||
| Western Tasmanian Highlands | Central Tasmanian Plateau | ||
| Bass-Midland Graben | Bass Strait | ||
| Ben Lomond Block | |||
| Western Australian Shield | Yilgarn Block | Stirling-Mount Barren Block | |
| Darling Hills | |||
| Recherche Shelf | |||
| Donnybrook Sunkland | Naturaliste-Leeuwin Horst | ||
| Swan Coastal Belt | Dandaragan Plateau | ||
| Greenough Block | |||
| Rottnest-Abrolhos Shelf | |||
| Carnarvon Basin | Shark Bay-Byro Plains | ||
| Nullagine Platform | Pilbara Block | ||
| Fortescue Rift | |||
| Hamersley Plateau | |||
| Onslow Coastal Plain | |||
| Dampier Rise | |||
| Canning Basin | Pindan Country | ||
| Fitzroy Valley | |||
| Rowley Depression | |||
| Kimberly Block | Wunaamin Miliwundi Range | ||
| Durack Range | |||
| Leveque Rise | |||
| Browse Depression | |||
| Londonderry Rise | |||
| Antrim Region | Ord Basin | ||
| Cambridge Gulf Lowlands | |||
| Bonaparte Depression | |||
| Arnhem Block | Pine Creek Belt | ||
| Van Dieman Rise | |||
| Arafura Shelf | |||
| Wessel Rise | |||
| Arunta-Sturt Block | |||
| Barkly Tableland | Mueller Plateau | ||
| Sandover-Pituri Platform | |||
| Mount Isa-Cloncurry Fold Belt | |||
| MacDonnell Fold Belt | |||
| Amadeus Sunkland | |||
| Musgrave Block | |||
| Nurrari Plain | |||
| Eucla Basin | Eyre Coastal Plain | ||
| Eucla Shelf | |||
| Gawler Block | Stuart Range Basin | ||
| Pimba Platform | |||
| South Australian Shatter Belt | Torrens Graben | ||
| Spencer Graben | |||
| Vincent Graben | |||
| Yorke Horst | |||
| Frome Graben | |||
| Willyama Block |
| ||
| Eurasia | Fenno-Scandian Shield | Norway Upland | |
| Swedish Lowland | |||
| Lake Region | |||
| Karelian Trough | |||
| English Lowlands | |||
| Central European Uplands | Hibernian Uplands | ||
| Cornish-Welsh Uplands | |||
| Pennine Chain | |||
| Scottish Highlands | |||
| Armorican Massive | |||
| South Central Plateau (Massif Central) | |||
| Central Plateau (Meseta Central) | |||
| Jura Range | |||
| Vosges Mountains and Black Forest Mountains | |||
| Swiss-Bavarian Plateau | |||
| Rhenish Massif | |||
| West Hesse Highlands | |||
| East Hesse Highlands | |||
| Weser Uplands | |||
| Bohemian Massif | |||
| Cantabrian Mountains | |||
| Alpine System | Pyrenees | ||
| Alps | Southern Alps | ||
| Western Alps | |||
| Eastern Alps | |||
| Cantabrian Mountains | |||
| Apennines | |||
| Ebro Lowlands | |||
| Volcanic Lowlands | |||
| Spanish Meseta | |||
| Dinaric-Grecian Mountains | Pindus | ||
| Andalusian Lowlands | |||
| Corsardinian Highlands | |||
| Baetic Cordillera | |||
| Pannonian Basin | Western Pannonian Plain | ||
| Eastern Pannonian Plain | |||
| Transylvanian Basin[7] | |||
| Central Balkan Ranges | |||
| Upper Thracian Plain | |||
| Carpathians | Western Carpathians | ||
| Eastern Carpathians | |||
| Southern Carpathians | |||
| Serbian Carpathians | |||
| Western Romanian Carpathians | |||
| Crimean Mountains | |||
| Caucasus | Greater Caucasus | ||
| Lesser Caucasus | |||
| Transcaucasian Depressian | |||
| Kolkhida Lowland | |||
| Great European Plain | Aquitanian Plain | ||
| Netherlands | |||
| Northern European Lowlands | |||
| Polesian Lowland | |||
| Dnieper Lowland | |||
| Volhynian-Podolian Plateau | Volhynian-Podolian Upland | ||
| Moldavian Plateau | |||
| Roztocze | |||
| Danubian Plain and Wallachian Plain | |||
| Black Sea-Azov Lowland | Black Sea Lowland | ||
| Azov Lowland | |||
| Donets-Azov Upland | Azov Upland | ||
| Donets Upland | |||
| Donets Ridge | |||
| Central Russian Upland | |||
| Central Russian Upland | Kalach Upland | ||
| Oka–Don Lowland | |||
| Russian Plain | |||
| Ural Mountains | Northern Urals | ||
| Central Urals | |||
| Southern Urals | |||
| Middle East Eastern Highlands | Zagros Mountains | ||
| Bitlis Mountains | |||
| Kopet-Dag Mountains | |||
| Elburz Mountains | Western Elburz | ||
| Central Elburz | |||
| Eastern Elburz | |||
| Central Iranian Plateau | Dasht-e Kavir | ||
| Dasht-e Lut | |||
| Pontus Mountains | |||
| Taurus Mountains | |||
| Anatolian Plateau | |||
| Fertile Crescent | |||
| West Siberian Plain | Taiga | ||
| Kazakh Steppe | |||
| Central Siberian Upland | Yenisei Horst | ||
| Irkutsk Basin | |||
| Vilyuy Plain | |||
| Aldan Basin | |||
| Yakutsk Basin | |||
| Eastern Siberian Highlands | Anadyr Highlands | ||
| Kolyma Mountains | |||
| Kamchatka Peninsula | |||
| Verkhoyansk Range | |||
| Aldan Highlands/Stanovoy Range | |||
| Sikhote-Alin Range | |||
| Sakhalin Island | |||
| Northern Asian Mountains | Kentei Hills | ||
| Altai Mountains | |||
| Great Indian Plain | |||
| Himalayan Mountain System | Hindu Kush Mountains | ||
| Lesser Himalayas | |||
| Great Himalayas | |||
| Tethys Himalayas | |||
| Pamirs | |||
| Tibetan Plateau | |||
| Deccan Plateau | Western Ghats | ||
| Eastern Ghats | |||
| Nagpur Basin | |||
| Vindhya Range | |||
| Satpura Range | |||
| Bihar Hills | |||
| Central Asian Lowlands | Taklamakan Desert | ||
| Baikal Basin | |||
| Junggar Basin | |||
| Gobi Desert | |||
| Qaidam Basin |
References
- ^ "Physiographic divisions of the conterminous U.S." U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
- ^ "Physiographic & Landform – World, U.S." Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ "The Atlas of Canada – physiographic regions". Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ "Defining Physiographic Realms and Regions: The Spatial Variation of Landscapes". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
- ^ Fichter, Lynn S. (1999). "A Description of the Geology of Virginia". James Madison University. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ Bluemle, John; Biek, Bob (2007). "No Ordinary Plain: North Dakota's Physiography and Landforms". North Dakota Geological Survey. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ Sometimes is considered a section of Carpathians province.
This page was last edited on 27 January 2024, at 17:57