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Landforms resulting from weathering

Ruware/Dwala. Image credit WordPress.com ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Landforms resulting from weathering.

Weathering processes and usually in conjunction with other denudation processes such as water and wind erosion and mass wasting results in the formation of various landscapes.
In temperate and tropical latitudes these include:

1.Inselbergs/Monadnocks

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Dwala/Ruware. Image credit WordPress.com ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Landforms resulting from weathering: Dwala

Known as ruware in Shona, dwala in Ndebele (Nguni languages) and whaleback in English.
An example is Domboshava where several such landforms can be found.
It is a hill or rock which is dome shaped and rises several metres […]

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Air pollution results in increased incidences of acid rain. Image credit airbetter.org ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: People and weathering

How humans influence weather?

Human activities such as industrialisation and driving of cars produce emissions such as sulphur dioxide,nitric oxide […]

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The structure of the Earth. Image by BBC. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: The Earth’s Crust

The earth is generally spherical in shape.
It’s surface however is made up of immeasurable valleys, mountains, rivers, hills etc of different shapes and sizes which in turn […]

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A weathered boulder. Image credit earthlearningidea. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Weathering

Earth movements (plate tectonics) create and lead to the development of the earth’s major landforms for example block mountains, volcanic cones, lava plateaus and rift valleys.
As soon as they are formed denudation processes […]

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