sand hills
Beach terrain features
Sand hills are low, rounded elevations of sandy terrain, typically formed by wind or ancient geological processes.
The term describes natural landscape features common in coastal areas and arid regions.
Capitalized, the Sand Hills designate specific geographic regions—notably the grass-covered dunes of central Nebraska and the golf resort area of North Carolina.
- dryFree from moisture
- duneWind-formed sand ridge
- dune grassSand-stabilizing coastal plant
- moundHeaped earth formation
- hummockLow earthen mound
ridge · erosion · coastal erosion · deposition · kangaroo rat · burrowing owl · Nebraska · arid · blowout · weathering · drift · beach grass · prairie grass · wind · desert tortoise · xerophyte · abrasion · dust
- High Plainsshortgrass prairie, grassland, prairie dog, buffalo grass, wheat fields
- prairie landformsbutte, mesa, bluff, badlands, tableland
- Plains Geologybadlands, buttes, mesas, loess, shale
- Pine Barrenspine barrens, pitch pine, pine trees, pine forest, pine forests
- Texas PanhandleAmarillo, High Plains, flat terrain, cotton farming, cattle ranching
- landformsmountain, cliff, valley, volcano, mountain ridge
sand hillsgranite peaks
Rocky mountain summits
bedrock · volcanic mountains · forested slopes · limestone hills · basalt columns
sand hillslowlands
Low-elevation flat terrain
plateaus · valley floors · valleys · canyons · mountain ranges
sand hillsmarshland
Waterlogged lowland area
swamps · wetlands · bogs · floodplains · river deltas