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Homoclinal ridge (Geomorphology 🏞️)
A homoclinal ridge or strike ridge is a hill or ridge with a moderate, generally between 10° and 30°, sloping backslope. Its backslope is a dip slope, that conforms with the dip of a resistant stratum or strata, called caprock. On the other side of the other slope, which is its frontslope, of a homoclinal ridge is a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoclinal_ridge
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