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QualFormSurfaceType

Area with specific elements of form Note: Designed as polygon delineations on quaternary geological maps and marine geological charts. These elements of form may have a natural origin or be man-made. The same elements of form may also occur as point registrations and/or line registrations 

Updated: 10/12/2025
Status: Submitted
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Landslide fan. Colluvial fan
301

Valid

Area which has been subjected to hill levelling
51

Valid

An area with a series of small elongate ridges, produced at tidally influenced ice sheets margin or floating icebergs grounding line
971

Valid

An area of the seabed with depressions formed by bottom currents. They have an almost flat bottom often consisting of coarse-grained sediments that provide high backscatter in acoustic data, and current-/wave ripples are often observed. The size of the depressions varies, but they can be up to 3 km long, 300 m wide, and 1 m deep. Current depressions have been found, for example, on Sveinsgrunnen off Troms and in the North Sea.
64

Valid

Area with iceberg ploughmarks
63

Valid

Area with landforms formed by landslide material
42

Valid

Area with landforms formed by quick clay landslide masses
43

Valid

Area with landforms formed by rockslide material
41

Valid

Area with landforms formed by unspecified slide material
40

Valid

Coral reef
961

Valid

Area with landforms and sediments resulting from melting of dynamically stagnant (dead) glacier ice. Can include both till and glaciofluvial deposits.
8

Valid

Delta plain
52

Valid

A positive topographic element which primarily consists of clay, often in connection with the seepage of gas on the seafloor
904

Valid

Area where surface of the seabed has been changed by dredging
955

Valid

Dredging masses
954

Valid

Streamlined ridge in sediment, oriented parallel to the ice-flow direction.
3

Valid

Area with many drumlins of similar orientation.
4

Valid

Dumping site
956

Valid

Dune field (or sand waves)
61

Valid

Distinct ridge in sorted surficial sediment, resulting from deposition in tunnels or cavities in a glacier. The line symbol for esker (12) can be used in combination with this polygon to emphasize the position and orientation of the ridge.
1

Valid

Excavation/gravel pit
957

Valid

Fan, unspecified
44

Valid

Fill/Embankment
958

Valid

Area with elongated parallel ridges and grooves on a surface. Ridges and grooves are oriented parallel to the direction of former ice movement. Low relief and little width in relation to length.
953

Valid

Area with landforms formed by landslide material
53

Valid

Semi-circular mounds or domes with steep sides and an uneven surface. Gas hydrate pingos are formed when gas flowing up from deeper layers under the seabed accumulates in pore spaces in sediments below the surface. Gas hydrate pingos occur in areas that are under high pressure and low temperature, e.g. at great depths and in cold regions, e.g. Storfjordrenna and Storbanken in the Barents Sea.
915

Valid

Glacitectonic hill
911

Valid

Hole (depression) in the surface formed during ice movement and rip off and removal of big, often sheet-formed slabs of its subsurface
913

Valid

Narrow valley with steep sides, formed by erosion in bedrock or consolidated sediments by a river or a subaquatic/submarine stream
350

Valid

Depression in surficial sediment formed by the grounding of an iceberg
910

Valid

Wedge-shaped ridge that is formed at the front of a glacier during periods of standstill or minor advances of a glacier
970

Valid

Ice marginal deposit of either till or glaciofluvial material or a combination of these
963

Valid

Moraine ridge formed along an ice margin. Includes end, lateral and terminal moraines.
962

Valid

Karst area
55

Valid

Ridge shaped moraine deposit
964

Valid

Area characterized by mounds and ridges of varying length and orientation.
2

Valid

Local elevation on the seabed consisting of unconsolidated sediments
914

Valid

Area of a bog with peat covered, ice-cored mounds. Formed through growth of ground ice which does not melt during summer.
33

Valid

Area with polygon patterned surface formed through frost action. This pattern can be formed by ice-wedge polygons or by stone sorting from freeze-thaw processes.
32

Valid

Clear ridge formation on the seabed of unspecified origin
965

Valid

Ridges
960

Valid

Rockslide
966

Valid

Coalescent sinuous ridges, comprised mainly of till, oriented transverse to ice-flow direction. Often situated in close relation to drumlins.
12

Valid

Area with sediment waves
959

Valid

Landscape formed by a landslide; can include slide hollow, slide run and slide fan
951

Valid

Area with tussocks resulting from frost activity in peat.
31

Valid

Wreck
907

Valid

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