Colloquial
61Beg pardon — colloquial shortening of the phrase I beg your pardon …
62arroyo — (colloquial: southwestern USA) The channel of a flat floored, ephemeral stream, commonly with very steep to vertical banks cut in unconsolidated material; sometimes called a wash. It is usually dry but can be transformed into a temporary… …
63bajada — (colloquial: southwestern USA) A broad, gently inclined, alluvial piedmont slope extending from the base of a mountain range out into a basin and formed by the lateral coalescence of a series of alluvial fans. Typically it has a broadly… …
64ballena — (colloquial: western USA) A fan remnant having a distinctively rounded surface of fan alluvium. The ballena s broadly rounded shoulders meet from either side to form a narrow summit and merge smoothly with concave side slopes and then… …
65ballon — (colloquial: western USA) A rounded, dome shaped hill, formed either by erosion or uplift. GG …
66basin-floor remnant — (colloquial: western USA) A relatively flat, erosional remnant of any former landform of a basin floor that has been dissected following the incision of an axial stream. FFP …
67bolson — (colloquial: western USA) A term applied to an internally drained (closed) intermontane basin in arid regions where drainages from adjacent mountains converge toward a central depression. Bolsons are often tectonically formed depressions.… …
68breaks — (colloquial: western USA) A landscape or large tract of steep, rough or broken land dissected by ravines and gullies and marks a sudden change in topography as from an elevated plain to lower hilly terrain, or a line of irregular cliffs at the …
69broad interstream divide — (colloquial: southeastern USA) A type of very wide, low gradient (level to nearly level) interfluve that lacks a well developed drainage network such that large portions of the local upland lack stream channels or other drainageways;… …
70coulee — (colloquial: northwestern USA and ND) A dry or intermittent stream valley or wash with an underfit stream, especially a long, steep walled gorge representing a Pleistocene overflow channel that carried meltwater from an ice sheet; e.g., the …
