A hill chain, sometimes called a hill ridge, is an elongated line of hills made up of a succession of more or less prominent hilltops, domed summits, hill ridges and saddles, together with associated lateral ridges and branches that can form a complex topographic structure. It can occur within a larger hill range, within an area of low rolling hill country, or on a plain, and it can link two or more otherwise separate hill ranges. The line between a hill chain and a mountain chain is not sharp and depends on how a given region defines a hill or a mountain.
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In Discipline: Geomorphology, Lead paragraph
A hill chain, sometimes also hill ridge, is an elongated line of hills that usually includes a succession of more or less prominent hilltops, domed summits or kuppen, hill ridges and saddles and which, together with its associated lateral ridges and branches, may form a complex topographic structure
Caused By: Orogeny, Lead sentence
The chain-like arrangement of hills in a chain is a consequence of their collective formation by mountain building forces or ice age earth movements.
Caused By: Glaciation, Lead sentence
The chain-like arrangement of hills in a chain is a consequence of their collective formation by mountain building forces or ice age earth movements.
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