Windstorms that cause tree uprooting on particularly unsteady soils as well as periodic strong runoffs contribute to create or maintain a localhummock-hollow topography.
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Floodplain and swamp ecosystems are inherently seasonal, and many of them feature microtopographichummock-hollow variation.
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In the peat-swamp forest, the microtopography was characterized by the distribution of small hummocks on the waterlogged forest floor.
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Vegetation moulds can be seen on the underside of some of these hummocks.
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Swamps tend to fill themselves in naturally and unevenly with hummocks; raised fields can be interpreted as enhanced hummocks.
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They prefer mildly acidic soils, growing in woods near pines or hemlock or mossy hummocks.
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Trapped between the freezing surface soils and the buried permafrost layer the soil material is forced upwards into hummocks.
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Often the larvae settle so close together that hummocks are formed as the juvenile barnacles grow.
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Debris avalanche deposits are characterized by the debris-avalanche block (hummocks) and the debris-avalanche matrix.
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Triodia is a plant genus that is grass like and forms ahummock.
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It is composed of numerous hummocks and peatland basins, some of which are glacial in origin while others have been created by sand extraction.
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The other sediments eroded away, while the more resistant oolite weathered into hummocks, small arches and other intriguing natural sculptures.
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These occur as a series of irregular parallel sand ridges and hummocks separated by hollows, which are seasonally wet.
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A lot of ancient plants grew in the garden, and there lied ahummockin hind part.
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One small form of dunehummockis a nabkha.
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