Flat (landform)

The village of Santarfa in Ethiopia is established on a structural flat along a 1000-metre-high escarpment

A flat is a relatively level surface of land within a region of greater relief, such as hills or mountains, usually used in the plural.[1][2][3][4] The term is often used to name places with such features, for example, Yucca Flat or Henninger Flats.

Flat is also used to describe other level geographic areas as mud flats or salt flats.

  1. ^ "GNIS Feature Class Definitions: Flat". geonames.usgs.gov. USGS. Archived from the original on 27 June 2021. Retrieved 4 Jan 2017. Relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
  2. ^ "flat". dictionary.com. IAC Publishing. Retrieved 4 Jan 2017. flat or level ground; a flat area
  3. ^ "flat". oxforddictionaries.com. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on September 25, 2016. Retrieved 4 Jan 2017. An area of low level ground, especially near water
  4. ^ "flat". dictionary.cambridge.org. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 4 Jan 2017. An area of low, level ground, often near water