Fernling

Japanese: Fernling
Fernling

...Monadnock, proposed by geomorphologist WM Davis after the example of Mount Monodnock in New Hampshire, USA, has become the term for this type of landform. The German school calls it Restberg, and divides it into two categories: Härtling, which is made of relatively harder rock than the surrounding area and therefore eroded slowly, and Fernling, which protrudes because it has been at the watershed since the beginning of the erosion cycle. There are no good examples in Japan, as there are no typical peneplains, but mountain peaks protruding from constant-height mountain ridges are interpreted as a type of remnant hill. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Fernling" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…アメリカ合衆国ニューハンプシャー州のモノドノック山の例にちなみ,地形学者W.M.デービスが提唱した〈モナドノックmonadnock〉が,この種の地形の術語として定着している。ドイツ学派はRestbergと呼び,周囲より相対的に硬い岩石であるため浸食が遅れたものを〈硬岩残丘Härtling〉,浸食輪廻の初めから分水界の位置にあり続けたために突起しているものを源地残丘Fernlingとして二分した。日本では典型的な準平原がみられないので好例はないが,定高性の山稜から突出した山峰は,残丘の一種と解釈されている。…

※「Fernling」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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