Geological

A Feature that is used to tag the geological makeup of an area.

geological:
  value: moraine
  match: equals

Only the following values are allowed:

  • moraine - Any accumulation of unconsolidated rock debris previously carried by a glacier.
  • outcrop - A place where the bedrock or superficial deposits previously covered under the soil have become locally exposed.
  • fold - Planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, that are bent or curved ("folded").
  • palaeontological_site - A place with fossils.
  • volcanic_lava_field - An area with volcanic lava on the ground.
  • volcanic_vent - A hole through which the lava erupts.
  • glacial_erratic - A boulder deposited by a glacier.
  • rock_glacier - Rock glaciers are mixtures of rock and ice that move slowly downhill when active.
  • giants_kettle - A regular hole in a rock created by the rotation of stones in the bed of a stream.
  • meteor_crater - A crater formed by the impact of a meteor.
  • hoodoo - A column of rock with a hat.
  • columnar_jointing - Several hexagonal columns of rock.
  • dyke - a sheet of rock that fills a fracture of a pre-existing rock body or when standing alone looking like a man made wall.
  • monocline - Step-like fold in rock strata consisting of a zone of a dip comprised between ~65° and 90°.
  • tor - A large, free-standing rock outcrop that rises abruptly.
  • unconformity - A buried erosional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages.
  • cone - A landform with a distinctly conical shape.
  • sinkhole - A depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface.
  • pingo - Pingos are intrapermafrost ice-cored hills.
  • inselberg - Inselberg are isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain.
  • limestone_pavement - A natural karst landform consisting of a flat surface of limestone.