Small to medium hollows and cuts carved by running water and by weathering, including riverbed potholes, stream headcuts, gully-like lavaka and the makhtesh erosion craters of the Negev. A landform belongs here when its cited article describes an erosional hole, cut or hollow. It excludes broad erosion surfaces and rock pillars. Swirling stones in a stream bed drill potholes, while headward erosion pushes a headcut upstream, so each is placed by the process the article names.
All Potholes, Headcuts and Erosional Hollows
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Pothole (landform) (Wikipedia)
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In Earth science, a pothole is a smooth, bowl-shaped or cylindrical hollow, generally deeper than wide, found carved into the rocky bed of a watercourse.
Stream head cut (Wikipedia)
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In geomorphology, a stream head cut or simply head cut (alternately headcut) is an erosional feature of some intermittent and perennial streams.
Lavaka (Wikipedia)
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Lavaka (Malagasy pronunciation: [ˈlavakə̥]), the Malagasy word for "hole", usually found on the side of a hill, is a type of erosional feature common in Madagascar.
HaMakhtesh HaGadol (Wikipedia)
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HaMakhtesh HaGadol (Hebrew: הַמַּכְתֵּשׁ הַגָּדוֹל, lit. The Big Crater) or simply Makhtesh HaGadol or Makhtesh Gadol, is a makhtesh, a geological erosional landform of Israel's Negev desert.
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