Human-modified or created landforms are increasingly evident across the landscape particularly in urban areas. The ability to identify, describe, and convey anthropogenic features differs in content but shares both framework and challenges with conventional geomorphology and natural landforms. These challenges can include range of content, stratigraphy, and lateral extent – terms unfamiliar to many urban land managers. As the variety, complexity, and number of anthropogenic features increases it becomes imperative to develop means to bridge the gap between naturally derived features and artificially derived features. Examples are drawn from geomorphic descriptions for urban soils in actual surveys. A functional framework is proposed for urban geomorphology. Photographic arrays show human-modified landforms in the context of larger landscapes and smaller microfeatures.
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