رأس أرضي

A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.[1] Headlands are characterised by high, breaking waves, rocky shores, intense erosion, and steep sea cliff.

Headlands and bays are often found on the same coastline. A bay is flanked by land on three sides, whereas a headland is flanked by water on three sides. Headlands and bays form on discordant coastlines, where bands of rock of alternating resistance run perpendicular to the coast. Bays form when weak (less resistant) rocks (such as sands and clays) are eroded, leaving bands of stronger (more resistant) rocks (such as chalk, limestone, and granite) forming a headland, or peninsula. Through the deposition of sediment within the bay and the erosion of the headlands, coastlines eventually straighten out, then start the same process all over again.

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قائمة الرؤوس الأرضية البارزة

أفريقيا

Cape Malabata, المغرب

آسيا

أوروبا

Cliffs at Beachy Head, England
Land's End, England

أمريكا الشمالية

Point Reyes, California, USA

كندا

گرينلاند

المكسيك

الولايات المتحدة

أوقيانوسيا

Hanauma Bay and Koko Crater at Koko Head, O'ahu Island, Hawai'i, USA
Sydney Heads, New South Wales, Australia
South West Cape, Tasmania


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أستراليا

نيوزيلندا

الولايات المتحدة (هاوائي)

أمريكا الجنوبية

Cape Horn, Chile

انظر أيضاً

المراجع

  1. ^ Whittow, John (1984). Dictionary of Physical Geography. London: Penguin, 1984, pp. 80, 246. ISBN 0-14-051094-X.